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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Bernard entertain in restaurants?
(a) He was a public figure.
(b) He loved to eat.
(c) He was a television personality.
(d) He was a chef.

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

3. What does June want to be the centerpiece of the memoir Jeremy is writing about her?
(a) A certain Christmas dinner.
(b) Her divorce.
(c) Her marriage to Bernard.
(d) The black dogs.

4. 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.

5. As she lay ill in bed, who do we learn June is jealous of as regards Bernard?
(a) The nurses who chat with him.
(b) His housekeeper.
(c) Any woman he meets.
(d) His secretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. During June's generation, what was the worst possible thing that could happen to a girl?

2. What was June's basic view about life?

3. When did Sally let on that she had been abused as a child?

4. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?

5. How does Jeremy react to hearing June talk like a Californian professional or a dazed hippie?

(see the answer key)

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