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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jeremy continue to do after leaving North Oxford?
(a) Studying.
(b) Switching girlfriends.
(c) Writing to Harper.
(d) Leaving places and people.

2. What did Jean and Harper spend a lot of their time doing?
(a) Going to museums.
(b) Drinking and fighting.
(c) Going out to the movies.
(d) Taking cruises.

3. What was it about the photograph of June and Bernard that Jeremy kept looking at that was so appealing to him?
(a) The colors were true to life.
(b) They both were in formal dress.
(c) Their smiles were infectious.
(d) The innocence of the time it was taken in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) That she looks better now than she did then.
(d) How much she had changed.

11. What disease was June dying of?
(a) Cardiovascular Disease.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Multiple Sclerosis.
(d) Pancreatic Cancer.

12. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1989.

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

14. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?
(a) They were constantly at his home.
(b) They were so alike in all ways.
(c) He loved them.
(d) Due to a lifetime habit of befriending parental figures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeremy react to hearing June talk like a Californian professional or a dazed hippie?

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

3. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?

4. What is it that Jeremy's young son, Alexander, keeps asking on the car ride to the cemetery?

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

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