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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was June's job when she first encountered Bernard?
(a) Senator's secretary.
(b) French teacher for foreign diplomat's children.
(c) Interpreter and occasional translator of French documents.
(d) Socialist Party leader.

2. Why was Jeremy so upset just before leaving for Oxford?
(a) Sally was crying because he was going away.
(b) His bags would not fit in his friend's car.
(c) He didn't think college was right for him.
(d) Harper was threatening to kill him.

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

4. In Part One, what do we learn about Bernard's current political views?
(a) He is a liberal.
(b) He is still a Communist.
(c) He is very conservative.
(d) He is no longer involved in politics at all.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was June's basic view about life?
(a) It was best not to examine it.
(b) It had a purpose.
(c) God had no hand in it.
(d) Life was random.

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

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

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

14. Bernard tells people that June believes the dogs she encountered on the path were something other than just dogs. What were they?
(a) Angels.
(b) Satan's familiars.
(c) Poltergeists.
(d) The ghosts of her parents.

15. What is it that June dreaded when thinking about marriage?
(a) Housework.
(b) Having babies.
(c) The honeymoon.
(d) Shopping for groceries.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Jeremy work so hard at studying for his A levels?

3. What kind of religious service is performed at June's burial?

4. What organization did June join when she was eighteen-years-old?

5. What did June discover about herself the morning after the dolmen?

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