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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?
(a) June "stole" Bernard from another woman.
(b) They each have a different story about it.
(c) They met on a blind date and disliked each other.
(d) They met by accident.

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

3. What does June want to be the centerpiece of the memoir Jeremy is writing about her?
(a) The black dogs.
(b) Her divorce.
(c) A certain Christmas dinner.
(d) Her marriage to Bernard.

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

5. When Jeremy spoke with Bernard, how did he feel about June?
(a) He felt June was right in her world beliefs.
(b) He was glad he knew her.
(c) He felt sorry for her.
(d) He knew June was outlandishlly wrong about the world.

6. June and Bernard had another obsession. What was it?
(a) Music.
(b) Science.
(c) Communism.
(d) Dancing.

7. In what way were June and Bernard alike in the beginning of their relationship?
(a) They were both communists.
(b) They both enjoyed theater and music.
(c) They were ophans.
(d) They were very spiritual.

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

9. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1930.

10. What did Harper do for a living?
(a) He was a part-time teaher.
(b) He was a security guard.
(c) He was a bouncer at a bar.
(d) He worked in a bank.

11. What was it about the photograph of June and Bernard that Jeremy kept looking at that was so appealing to him?
(a) They both were in formal dress.
(b) Their smiles were infectious.
(c) The colors were true to life.
(d) The innocence of the time it was taken in.

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

13. In what way did June become a spiritual person?
(a) Through a visit to Fatima.
(b) Through an encounter with two dogs.
(c) She went to India to meditate.
(d) She observed the vicious death of her pet dog.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about Jeremy that reminds June of Bernard?

2. How does Jeremy react to hearing June talk like a Californian professional or a dazed hippie?

3. As she lay ill in bed, who do we learn June is jealous of as regards Bernard?

4. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?

5. What did Jean think of Jeremy's friend, Toby?

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