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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. Bernard tells people that June believes the dogs she encountered on the path were something other than just dogs. What were they?
(a) Angels.
(b) The ghosts of her parents.
(c) Poltergeists.
(d) Satan's familiars.

2. What were June and Bernard doing at the time the photograph in Part One was taken?
(a) They were taking in the sights of Paris.
(b) They signed up as members of the Communist Party.
(c) They had just secretly eloped.
(d) Bernard had just told June that he loved her.

3. What was June's job when she first encountered Bernard?
(a) Interpreter and occasional translator of French documents.
(b) French teacher for foreign diplomat's children.
(c) Socialist Party leader.
(d) Senator's secretary.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jeremy go knocking on his friend, Toby's, door?

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

3. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?

4. Why does Jeremy state that he was something of a parent at the age of seventeen?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jeremy feel that Toby Langley did not appreciate his parents?

2. 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?

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

4. In what way did Sally react when she could hear her parents having one of their violent arguments?

5. 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?

6. When Bernard's grandson, Alexander, asks his cousin, Harry, at June's burial when his grandma will be coming back, how does Harry's answer nearly sum up June's and Bernard's relationship problems?

7. How did Jeremy feel about leaving home for Oxford and being free to live on his own?

8. In what way do Jeremy and June disagree on June's reference to her story of the black dogs in Part One of the story?

9. Why did June and Bernard separate, according to the Preface?

10. What was it about his friends' parents that interested Jeremy?

(see the answer keys)

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