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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. As she lay ill in bed, who do we learn June is jealous of as regards Bernard?
(a) The nurses who chat with him.
(b) Any woman he meets.
(c) His housekeeper.
(d) His secretary.

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

3. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard are "obsessed", to what is she referring?
(a) Their children.
(b) Finding a cure for her.
(c) Their sexual life together.
(d) The need to gain governmental control.

4. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?
(a) How beautiful she still was.
(b) That she looks better now than she did then.
(c) That she looks happier now than she did then.
(d) How much she had changed.

5. What were June and Bernard doing at the time the photograph in Part One was taken?
(a) They had just secretly eloped.
(b) Bernard had just told June that he loved her.
(c) They signed up as members of the Communist Party.
(d) They were taking in the sights of Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?

2. What was June's basic view about life?

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

4. What did Jean think of Jeremy's friend, Toby?

5. What disease was June dying of?

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. What thoughts are probably going through Jeremy's mind as he watches June plants flower bulbs?

3. 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?

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. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?

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 did June and Bernard separate, according to the Preface?

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

9. 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?

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

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