View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jeremy go knocking on his friend, Toby's, door?
(a) To go drinking at Notting Hill.
(b) To spend time with Toby's parents.
(c) To hang out.
(d) To have a game of ball.

2. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?
(a) Getting love.
(b) Securing the future of the world.
(c) Looking after yourself.
(d) Educating them.

3. During June's generation, what was the worst possible thing that could happen to a girl?
(a) Being pregnant outside of marriage.
(b) Getting a divorce.
(c) Becoming a nun.
(d) Not being married by the age of 25.

4. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?
(a) Cries.
(b) Has a cigarette.
(c) Watches the sunset.
(d) Counts the headstones.

5. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
(a) No one.
(b) Little girls of three to five-years-old.
(c) Other college students.
(d) Parents of people his age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was it about the photograph of June and Bernard that Jeremy kept looking at that was so appealing to him?

2. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?

3. What did Jeremy realize to be the simplest way of getting back a lost parent?

4. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?

5. What is inferred in the last sentence of the Preface?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 348 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample