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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often did Jenny and her brothers see their parents?
(a) Hardly ever.
(b) Every day.
(c) Several times a year.
(d) Once a week.

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

3. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?
(a) That she looks happier now than she did then.
(b) That she looks better now than she did then.
(c) How much she had changed.
(d) How beautiful she still was.

4. How many children does Jeremy end up having?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) None.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jeremy's niece at the beginning of the story?

2. How did June get her doctor on her side and change the staff's attitude toward her?

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

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

5. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?

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