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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?
(a) How beautiful she still was.
(b) That she looks better now than she did then.
(c) That she looks happier now than she did then.
(d) How much she had changed.

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

3. Why does Jeremy state that he was something of a parent at the age of seventeen?
(a) He felt older than all of his school friends.
(b) His girlfirend got pregnant and ran away.
(c) He wanted to become a teacher.
(d) He took care of his sister's only child.

4. Where did June and Bernard have their first pre-marital intimate encounter?
(a) In Bernard's car.
(b) In the home of June's girlfriend.
(c) At the dolmen.
(d) In a movie theater.

5. Where did Toby Langley spend some of his childhood?
(a) In the United States and Mexico.
(b) At Oxford.
(c) In the Middle East, Kenya, and Venezuela.
(d) In Notting Hill.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?

4. What did Harper do for a living?

5. What was Jeremy writing?

(see the answer key)

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