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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. To whom does Jeremy dedicate his memoir?
(a) His parents.
(b) His wife, Jenny, and his niece, Sally.
(c) His niece, Sally, and his sister, Jean.
(d) The parents he spent many hours with.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bernard look like?

3. How often did Jenny and her brothers see their parents?

4. What organization did June join when she was eighteen-years-old?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jeremy's method of spending time with his friends' parents.

2. What thoughts are probably going through Jeremy's mind as he watches June plants flower bulbs?

3. What did Jeremy's friends, such as Toby and Joe, think of Jeremy in terms of being an orphan and living on his own mostly?

4. Why is Jeremy in such discomfort at a point in Part One when June is speaking to him of God and religion?

5. During one of her conversations with Jeremy, June talks about her obsessive relationship with Bernard and their love for one another that could not work. How does June find peace with this?

6. When did Jeremy, in the Prologue, feel that he really began to exist or to live?

7. How does June feel that Bernard is so different from her?

8. Although June and Bernard appear to be living separate lives in Part One, why does Bernard visit her and want news of her from Jeremy?

9. In Bernard's version of how he and June first met, he says that he could see no point in her job, therefore he did not notice her at all. In his world, she did not even exist until someone told him that she was beautiful. What might this say about Bernard's personality?

10. How does Jeremy feel about his friends' parents?

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