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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Jeremy's niece at the beginning of the story?
(a) Three.
(b) Newborn.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. What does Bernard think of living in and reflecting upon the present?
(a) It is self-indulgent.
(b) It is the only way to live.
(c) One can learn about life.
(d) It should be combined with the past.

3. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?
(a) Dogs chasing down rabbits.
(b) Two dogs running down a path.
(c) Two dogs fighting with one another.
(d) Dogs falling from a gorge.

4. What is it that Jeremy's young son, Alexander, keeps asking on the car ride to the cemetery?
(a) "Why did Grandma die?"
(b) "When is she coming back?"
(c) "WIll Grandpa die too?"
(d) "Are we there yet?"

5. What did Harper do for a living?
(a) He was a security guard.
(b) He worked in a bank.
(c) He was a part-time teaher.
(d) He was a bouncer at a bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did June become a spiritual person?

2. What did Harper end up doing by the end of the summer of Jeremy's eighteenth birthday?

3. What did Jeremy continue to do after leaving North Oxford?

4. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?

5. In Part One, what do we learn about Bernard's current political views?

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