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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?
(a) Bernard's drinking.
(b) Jeremy's work.
(c) Jenny's inability to have a child.
(d) June's illness.

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

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

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

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

6. June and Bernard had another obsession. What was it?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Music.
(c) Science.
(d) Communism.

7. 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.

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

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

10. What is inferred in the last sentence of the Preface?
(a) June and Bernard never forgive Jeremy.
(b) June and Bernard haunt Jeremy's home.
(c) Jeremy believes in ghosts and spiritualism.
(d) June and Bernard are dead.

11. From what point of view is the novel written?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Omniscient.
(d) Third person.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Dolmen de la Prunarede?

2. Where did Toby Langley spend some of his childhood?

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

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

5. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?

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