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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) Watches the sunset.
(b) Cries.
(c) Has a cigarette.
(d) Counts the headstones.

2. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?
(a) Two dogs fighting with one another.
(b) Dogs chasing down rabbits.
(c) Dogs falling from a gorge.
(d) Two dogs running down a path.

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

4. Why does Jeremy state that he was something of a parent at the age of seventeen?
(a) He wanted to become a teacher.
(b) He felt older than all of his school friends.
(c) His girlfirend got pregnant and ran away.
(d) He took care of his sister's only child.

5. What did Harper do for a living?
(a) He worked in a bank.
(b) He was a security guard.
(c) He was a bouncer at a bar.
(d) He was a part-time teaher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Jeremy writing?

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

4. At what stage was June put into the hospice?

5. How often did Jenny and her brothers see their parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?

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