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

2. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?
(a) That she looks happier now than she did then.
(b) How beautiful she still was.
(c) That she looks better now than she did then.
(d) How much she had changed.

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

4. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?
(a) Dogs falling from a gorge.
(b) Two dogs fighting with one another.
(c) Dogs chasing down rabbits.
(d) Two dogs running down a path.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jeremy writing?

2. When Jeremy spoke with Bernard, how did he feel about June?

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

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

5. Where was June living when Jeremy was visiting her and taking notes in Part One?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

5. When Bernard and June were not talking about their own personal world while dating, what were their conversations about?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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