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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was one of the reasons Jeremy did not pursue girls at the age of seventeen?
(a) He felt he was not good looking enough.
(b) He was not attracted to them.
(c) He was busy with two jobs.
(d) It would distract him from his school work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?
(a) His parents.
(b) His new car.
(c) His niece.
(d) His leg.

10. From what point of view is the novel written?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person.
(c) Omniscient.
(d) Second person.

11. What does June believe she discovered after the incident with the dogs?
(a) God.
(b) The perfect animals.
(c) Her true self.
(d) The meaning of life.

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

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

14. When did Sally let on that she had been abused as a child?
(a) When she was five-years-old.
(b) When she was about twenty-years-old.
(c) When she turned thirteen.
(d) She never did.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?

3. Bernard tells people that June believes the dogs she encountered on the path were something other than just dogs. What were they?

4. Why did Bernard entertain in restaurants?

5. What did Jeremy realize to be the simplest way of getting back a lost parent?

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