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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Besides Communism, what is one of June's other passions as a young girl?
(a) Financial matters.
(b) Reading literary novels.
(c) Cricket.
(d) The countryside.

3. Why was Jeremy so upset just before leaving for Oxford?
(a) He didn't think college was right for him.
(b) Sally was crying because he was going away.
(c) Harper was threatening to kill him.
(d) His bags would not fit in his friend's car.

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

5. Where did Jenny's parents live when Jeremy first met them?
(a) In North London.
(b) In Australia.
(c) In the South of France.
(d) In separate countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?

2. What did Bernard usually do when he knew Jeremy had just been to see June?

3. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?

4. Where did Toby Langley spend some of his childhood?

5. Why does Jeremy state that he was something of a parent at the age of seventeen?

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