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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Jeremy's reaction to discovering what June and Bernard's obsession together had been?
2. How did June get her doctor on her side and change the staff's attitude toward her?
3. What was Jeremy writing?
4. Besides Communism, what is one of June's other passions as a young girl?
5. What did Harper do for a living?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did Jeremy, in the Prologue, feel that he really began to exist or to live?
2. Why does Jeremy state that he naturally identifies with an abandoned child like Sally?
3. How does June feel that Bernard is so different from her?
4. 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?
5. Why did June and Bernard separate, according to the Preface?
6. What was it about his friends' parents that interested Jeremy?
7. Why is Jeremy in such discomfort at a point in Part One when June is speaking to him of God and religion?
8. Describe Jeremy's method of spending time with his friends' parents.
9. How does Jeremy feel about his friends' parents?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When a tough girl in leather saves Bernard from nearly being killed by a gang of boys in Berlin, who did that girl represent? Why? Does Bernard believe in this symbol?
Essay Topic 2
When June kills the dogs, she is also killing something else in a symbolic fashion. What is she getting rid of, and why? What does she find that is new for her? In what way does her encounter change June, and how does it affect her relationship with Bernard?
Essay Topic 3
When the story that the Maire told about the black dogs is explained, how does this affect June? How does it explain the dogs she saw and her premonition about them?
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