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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. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?
(a) Has a cigarette.
(b) Cries.
(c) Counts the headstones.
(d) Watches the sunset.

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

3. What did June discover about herself the morning after the dolmen?
(a) She could not have children.
(b) She loved another man.
(c) She was a tired woman.
(d) She had physical courage.

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

5. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
(a) No one.
(b) Parents of people his age.
(c) Little girls of three to five-years-old.
(d) Other college students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jeremy so upset just before leaving for Oxford?

2. From what point of view is the novel written?

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

4. In what way did June become a spiritual person?

5. What did Jeremy do for Sally?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way do Jeremy and June disagree on June's reference to her story of the black dogs in Part One of the story?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. Why does Jeremy state that he naturally identifies with an abandoned child like Sally?

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

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

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