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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did June get her doctor on her side and change the staff's attitude toward her?
(a) Jeremy brought Swiss chocolates to eveyone quite often.
(b) She told them they would all be in her book.
(c) She let her intelligence and thoughtfulness be known.
(d) She bribed them with money.

2. 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) June's illness.
(d) Bernard's drinking.

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

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

5. In what way did Jeremy identify with Sally?
(a) They had the same features and coloring.
(b) They loved to play the same games.
(c) He knew they were related.
(d) He felt they were both abandoned children.

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

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

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

9. Where was June living when Jeremy was visiting her and taking notes in Part One?
(a) The Dolmen.
(b) A nursing home.
(c) France.
(d) St. Privat.

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

11. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?
(a) Looking after yourself.
(b) Securing the future of the world.
(c) Educating them.
(d) Getting love.

12. Where did Toby Langley spend some of his childhood?
(a) At Oxford.
(b) In the Middle East, Kenya, and Venezuela.
(c) In the United States and Mexico.
(d) In Notting Hill.

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

14. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?
(a) His niece.
(b) His parents.
(c) His leg.
(d) His new car.

15. What organization did June join when she was eighteen-years-old?
(a) The Feminist Movement.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) The John Birch Society.
(d) The Socialist Cycling Club.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?

3. What was it about the photograph of June and Bernard that Jeremy kept looking at that was so appealing to him?

4. What was June's basic view about life?

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

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