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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 is Jeremy's reaction to discovering what June and Bernard's obsession together had been?
(a) He finds it difficult to imagine.
(b) Anger.
(c) Happiness.
(d) He feels he knew it all the time.

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

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

4. What was June's basic view about life?
(a) Life was random.
(b) It had a purpose.
(c) It was best not to examine it.
(d) God had no hand in it.

5. In what way did June become a spiritual person?
(a) She observed the vicious death of her pet dog.
(b) Through a visit to Fatima.
(c) She went to India to meditate.
(d) Through an encounter with two dogs.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Jeremy think of his friends' need to disassociate themselves from their parents?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

5. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard were still obsessed with each other in a physical way, what is Jeremy's reaction?

6. In Part One, we know that Jeremy is a bit obsessed with looking at a photograph of June and Bernard that June keeps in her bedroom in the nursing home. What are Jeremy's predominant thoughts when he views the photo?

7. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?

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

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

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

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