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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 it about Jeremy that reminds June of Bernard?
(a) His warmth and kindness.
(b) His dryness and distance.
(c) His looks.
(d) His sense of humor.

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

3. Where did Toby Langley spend some of his childhood?
(a) In Notting Hill.
(b) In the United States and Mexico.
(c) In the Middle East, Kenya, and Venezuela.
(d) At Oxford.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernard look like?

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

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

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

5. June and Bernard had another obsession. What was it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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