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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Jeremy dedicate his memoir?
(a) His wife, Jenny, and his niece, Sally.
(b) The parents he spent many hours with.
(c) His parents.
(d) His niece, Sally, and his sister, Jean.

2. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?
(a) They were constantly at his home.
(b) He loved them.
(c) They were so alike in all ways.
(d) Due to a lifetime habit of befriending parental figures.

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

4. What is inferred in the last sentence of the Preface?
(a) June and Bernard haunt Jeremy's home.
(b) June and Bernard are dead.
(c) June and Bernard never forgive Jeremy.
(d) Jeremy believes in ghosts and spiritualism.

5. What was Bernard's profession?
(a) An entomologist.
(b) A medical doctor.
(c) A veterinarian.
(d) A politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease was June dying of?

2. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?

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

4. What was one of the reasons Jeremy did not pursue girls at the age of seventeen?

5. At what stage was June put into the hospice?

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