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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 did Jeremy continue to do after leaving North Oxford?
(a) Leaving places and people.
(b) Studying.
(c) Writing to Harper.
(d) Switching girlfriends.

2. How does Jeremy react to hearing June talk like a Californian professional or a dazed hippie?
(a) He is uncomfortable.
(b) He wants to hear more.
(c) He is disgusted.
(d) He asks to tape record her.

3. At what age did Jeremy eventually get married?
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) Twenty.
(c) In his mid-thirties.
(d) In his forties.

4. What is it that June dreaded when thinking about marriage?
(a) Housework.
(b) The honeymoon.
(c) Having babies.
(d) Shopping for groceries.

5. During June's generation, what was the worst possible thing that could happen to a girl?
(a) Getting a divorce.
(b) Being pregnant outside of marriage.
(c) Not being married by the age of 25.
(d) Becoming a nun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the reasons Jeremy did not pursue girls at the age of seventeen?

2. What disease was June dying of?

3. What did June discover about herself the morning after the dolmen?

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

5. What is happening in Jean and Harper's relationship?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?

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

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

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