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

2. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?
(a) They were constantly at his home.
(b) Due to a lifetime habit of befriending parental figures.
(c) They were so alike in all ways.
(d) He loved them.

3. What is inferred in the last sentence of the Preface?
(a) Jeremy believes in ghosts and spiritualism.
(b) June and Bernard are dead.
(c) June and Bernard haunt Jeremy's home.
(d) June and Bernard never forgive Jeremy.

4. When Jeremy spoke with Bernard, how did he feel about June?
(a) He felt sorry for her.
(b) He felt June was right in her world beliefs.
(c) He knew June was outlandishlly wrong about the world.
(d) He was glad he knew her.

5. What does June believe she discovered after the incident with the dogs?
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) God.
(c) Her true self.
(d) The perfect animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, what do we learn about Bernard's current political views?

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

3. Bernard tells people that June believes the dogs she encountered on the path were something other than just dogs. What were they?

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

5. What did Harper end up doing by the end of the summer of Jeremy's eighteenth birthday?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Jeremy feel that Toby Langley did not appreciate his parents?

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

6. 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?

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

8. How did Jeremy feel about leaving home for Oxford and being free to live on his own?

9. Why did June and Bernard separate, according to the Preface?

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

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