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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 completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?

2. How often did Jenny and her brothers see their parents?

3. What is it that June dreaded when thinking about marriage?

4. Where did Jenny's parents live when Jeremy first met them?

5. What does Bernard think of living in and reflecting upon the present?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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

In what scenes and under what circumstances does June seem to be involved in guiding or helping the still-living members of her family? Does she really have a hand in the matters cited or are the characters simply hoping she is still involved in their lives?

Essay Topic 3

June's black dogs and Bernard's caterpillars are symbolic of their separate ways of viewing the world. How is that so?

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