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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did June get her doctor on her side and change the staff's attitude toward her?
(a) Jeremy brought Swiss chocolates to eveyone quite often.
(b) She let her intelligence and thoughtfulness be known.
(c) She told them they would all be in her book.
(d) She bribed them with money.

2. When the teenagers take their leave, how do they do it without losing face?
(a) They walk away slowly and pretend they are bored.
(b) One of them gives Bernard a punch in the stomach before leaving.
(c) They spit and curse at the crowd.
(d) They shoot a gun in the air.

3. What did Jeremy continue to do after leaving North Oxford?
(a) Leaving places and people.
(b) Writing to Harper.
(c) Studying.
(d) Switching girlfriends.

4. What finally drew Bernard away from the Communist Party?
(a) The contradictions between the reality and the fantasy of it.
(b) The difficulty in traveling to Russia.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) June did.

5. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?
(a) He explains his affair with another woman.
(b) He describes his home life with Jenny.
(c) He recounts certain conversations.
(d) He writes about his dead parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was it about the photograph of June and Bernard that Jeremy kept looking at that was so appealing to him?

2. When a group of teenagers surround Bernard, what does he tell them?

3. Jeremy believes the man in the crowd holding a Communist flag is of a certain nationality. What is it?

4. How often did Jenny and her brothers see their parents?

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

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