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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were June and Bernard doing at the time the photograph in Part One was taken?
(a) They signed up as members of the Communist Party.
(b) They had just secretly eloped.
(c) Bernard had just told June that he loved her.
(d) They were taking in the sights of Paris.

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

3. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?
(a) Cries.
(b) Watches the sunset.
(c) Counts the headstones.
(d) Has a cigarette.

4. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?
(a) He writes about his dead parents.
(b) He explains his affair with another woman.
(c) He describes his home life with Jenny.
(d) He recounts certain conversations.

5. What kind of religious service is performed at June's burial?
(a) Anglican.
(b) None.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Buddhist.

6. 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) How beautiful she still was.
(c) How much she had changed.
(d) That she looks better now than she did then.

7. What is happening in Jean and Harper's relationship?
(a) They are coming apart.
(b) They are engaged.
(c) They have decided to have an "open marriage".
(d) They are expecting another child.

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

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

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

11. What did June discover about herself the morning after the dolmen?
(a) She could not have children.
(b) She was a tired woman.
(c) She loved another man.
(d) She had physical courage.

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

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

14. 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) The innocence of the time it was taken in.
(c) Their smiles were infectious.
(d) The colors were true to life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jeremy writing?

2. What completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?

3. Where did June and Bernard have their first pre-marital intimate encounter?

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

5. In what way did Jeremy identify with Sally?

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