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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. Besides Communism, what is one of June's other passions as a young girl?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Financial matters.
(c) The countryside.
(d) Reading literary novels.

2. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?
(a) They met by accident.
(b) They each have a different story about it.
(c) They met on a blind date and disliked each other.
(d) June "stole" Bernard from another woman.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bernard usually do when he knew Jeremy had just been to see June?

2. To whom does Jeremy dedicate his memoir?

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

4. What was June's job when she first encountered Bernard?

5. Why did Jeremy work so hard at studying for his A levels?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jeremy not ever return to Notting Hill?

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. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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