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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 it about Jeremy that reminds June of Bernard?

2. What organization did June join when she was eighteen-years-old?

3. Why does Jeremy state that he was something of a parent at the age of seventeen?

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

5. How many children does Jeremy end up having?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

6. In Bernard's version of how he and June first met, he says that he could see no point in her job, therefore he did not notice her at all. In his world, she did not even exist until someone told him that she was beautiful. What might this say about Bernard's personality?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. How does June feel that Bernard is so different from her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast June and Bernard's personalities and belief systems.

Essay Topic 2

What problems do the three main characters in this story encounter? Do they manage to resolve them by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Jeremy is obsessed with studying the photograph of June as a young woman. What makes the photograph so appealing to him? Why? How does the appeal of the photograph of June contrast with the time in history the photograph was taken?

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