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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 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 had just secretly eloped.
(c) Bernard had just told June that he loved her.
(d) They signed up as members of the Communist Party.

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

3. What did Jean think of Jeremy's friend, Toby?
(a) She hated him.
(b) She had no feelings towards him at all.
(c) She had never met him.
(d) She secretly was in love with him.

4. What was it about the photograph of June and Bernard that Jeremy kept looking at that was so appealing to him?
(a) They both were in formal dress.
(b) The innocence of the time it was taken in.
(c) Their smiles were infectious.
(d) The colors were true to life.

5. Where did Jenny's parents live when Jeremy first met them?
(a) In North London.
(b) In Australia.
(c) In the South of France.
(d) In separate countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?

2. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard are "obsessed", to what is she referring?

3. What did Harper do for a living?

4. What was Jeremy writing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. In June's version of how she and Bernard first met, she actively pursues him, making sure that Bernard sees her when he is near his office. She even tries to make small talk with him. Why does June pursue Bernard when he does not even seem to notice her?

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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