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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jeremy's reaction to discovering what June and Bernard's obsession together had been?
(a) Anger.
(b) He feels he knew it all the time.
(c) He finds it difficult to imagine.
(d) Happiness.

2. What did Jeremy realize to be the simplest way of getting back a lost parent?
(a) To only hang around with old people.
(b) To become one yourself.
(c) By writing a family history.
(d) Looking at old family photos.

3. Where was June living when Jeremy was visiting her and taking notes in Part One?
(a) The Dolmen.
(b) St. Privat.
(c) France.
(d) A nursing home.

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

5. Why does Jeremy go knocking on his friend, Toby's, door?
(a) To have a game of ball.
(b) To go drinking at Notting Hill.
(c) To spend time with Toby's parents.
(d) To hang out.

6. What is the Dolmen de la Prunarede?
(a) Jeremy's home town.
(b) Jenny's ideal place to live.
(c) An ancient burial site that became a family site.
(d) The place where June and Bernard married.

7. What did Jean think of Jeremy's friend, Toby?
(a) She had never met him.
(b) She secretly was in love with him.
(c) She had no feelings towards him at all.
(d) She hated him.

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

9. What is it about Jeremy that reminds June of Bernard?
(a) His warmth and kindness.
(b) His dryness and distance.
(c) His looks.
(d) His sense of humor.

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

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

12. At what stage was June put into the hospice?
(a) Seven years before she died.
(b) Two weeks before she died.
(c) She never entered a hospice.
(d) When she was terminal.

13. What was Jeremy writing?
(a) Bernard's travelogues.
(b) June's memoir.
(c) His autobiography.
(d) A family history.

14. What completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?
(a) Bernard's drinking.
(b) June's illness.
(c) Jeremy's work.
(d) Jenny's inability to have a child.

15. At what age did Jeremy eventually get married?
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) In his forties.
(c) In his mid-thirties.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was June's job when she first encountered Bernard?

3. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?

4. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?

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

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