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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Jeremy dedicate his memoir?
(a) His parents.
(b) The parents he spent many hours with.
(c) His niece, Sally, and his sister, Jean.
(d) His wife, Jenny, and his niece, Sally.

2. What did Jeremy think of his friends' need to disassociate themselves from their parents?
(a) They were in a downward social spiral.
(b) They were heading for a nervous breakdown.
(c) They intended to become criminals.
(d) They would never make anything of themselves.

3. 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 met on a blind date and disliked each other.
(c) They each have a different story about it.
(d) They met by accident.

4. What did Bernard usually do when he knew Jeremy had just been to see June?
(a) He called Jeremy to see how ill June was.
(b) He did nothing, as he did not care.
(c) He asked if June needed anything.
(d) He telephoned Jeremy to ask if she'd been talking about him.

5. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
(a) Little girls of three to five-years-old.
(b) Parents of people his age.
(c) Other college students.
(d) No one.

6. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?
(a) Dogs chasing down rabbits.
(b) Two dogs fighting with one another.
(c) Two dogs running down a path.
(d) Dogs falling from a gorge.

7. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard are "obsessed", to what is she referring?
(a) Their children.
(b) Their sexual life together.
(c) Finding a cure for her.
(d) The need to gain governmental control.

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

9. What does Bernard think of living in and reflecting upon the present?
(a) One can learn about life.
(b) It should be combined with the past.
(c) It is the only way to live.
(d) It is self-indulgent.

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

11. 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) To only hang around with old people.
(d) By writing a family history.

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

13. As she lay ill in bed, who do we learn June is jealous of as regards Bernard?
(a) The nurses who chat with him.
(b) Any woman he meets.
(c) His secretary.
(d) His housekeeper.

14. 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 no longer involved in politics at all.
(d) He is very conservative.

15. What did Jeremy do for Sally?
(a) He played with and looked after her.
(b) He took her away from her parents.
(c) He gave her meals.
(d) He took her to school every day.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did June become a spiritual person?

2. What is inferred in the last sentence of the Preface?

3. What does Bernard look like?

4. What disease was June dying of?

5. How many children does Jeremy end up having?

(see the answer keys)

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