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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. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1972.

2. What completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?
(a) June's illness.
(b) Jenny's inability to have a child.
(c) Jeremy's work.
(d) Bernard's drinking.

3. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?
(a) His new car.
(b) His niece.
(c) His leg.
(d) His parents.

4. To whom does Jeremy dedicate his memoir?
(a) His parents.
(b) His wife, Jenny, and his niece, Sally.
(c) His niece, Sally, and his sister, Jean.
(d) The parents he spent many hours with.

5. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?
(a) He recounts certain conversations.
(b) He writes about his dead parents.
(c) He explains his affair with another woman.
(d) He describes his home life with Jenny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?

2. What was Bernard's profession?

3. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?

4. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?

5. What is it about Jeremy that reminds June of Bernard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. 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?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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