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

2. What was June's job when she first encountered Bernard?
(a) Interpreter and occasional translator of French documents.
(b) French teacher for foreign diplomat's children.
(c) Socialist Party leader.
(d) Senator's secretary.

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

4. Where was June living when Jeremy was visiting her and taking notes in Part One?
(a) France.
(b) The Dolmen.
(c) St. Privat.
(d) A nursing home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?

2. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?

3. What did Jeremy realize to be the simplest way of getting back a lost parent?

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

5. At what age did Jeremy eventually get married?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Jeremy in such discomfort at a point in Part One when June is speaking to him of God and religion?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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