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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that June dreaded when thinking about marriage?
(a) Shopping for groceries.
(b) The honeymoon.
(c) Having babies.
(d) Housework.

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

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

4. What did Jeremy do for Sally?
(a) He played with and looked after her.
(b) He gave her meals.
(c) He took her away from her parents.
(d) He took her to school every day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way were June and Bernard alike in the beginning of their relationship?

2. What is Jeremy's reaction to discovering what June and Bernard's obsession together had been?

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

4. What is it about Jeremy that reminds June of Bernard?

5. In Part One, what do we learn about Bernard's current political views?

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