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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 was Bernard's profession?
2. When did Sally let on that she had been abused as a child?
3. What is it that June dreaded when thinking about marriage?
4. What were June and Bernard doing at the time the photograph in Part One was taken?
5. In Part One, what do we learn about Bernard's current political views?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why did Jeremy feel that Toby Langley did not appreciate his parents?
3. Why did Jeremy not ever return to Notting Hill?
4. What thoughts are probably going through Jeremy's mind as he watches June plants flower bulbs?
5. How does Jeremy feel about his friends' parents?
6. Why did June and Bernard separate, according to the Preface?
7. How does June feel that Bernard is so different from her?
8. In what way did Sally react when she could hear her parents having one of their violent arguments?
9. 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?
10. Why is Jeremy in such discomfort at a point in Part One when June is speaking to him of God and religion?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What is it about June's story of the black dogs that might have someone believe it was her imagination? Point out phrases or words in the retelling of the scene to support your explanation.
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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