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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 June's basic view about life?
2. Why does Jeremy go knocking on his friend, Toby's, door?
3. Where did June and Bernard have their first pre-marital intimate encounter?
4. How often did Jenny and her brothers see their parents?
5. Why did Bernard entertain in restaurants?
Short Essay Questions
1. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?
2. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard were still obsessed with each other in a physical way, what is Jeremy's reaction?
3. 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?
4. When did Jeremy, in the Prologue, feel that he really began to exist or to live?
5. What was it about his friends' parents that interested Jeremy?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. How does Jeremy feel about his friends' parents?
9. What thoughts are probably going through Jeremy's mind as he watches June plants flower bulbs?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
While touring the concentration camp with Jeremy, Jenny mentions the "black dogs". What significance does this hold for her? How is she relating it to Majdanek?
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
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?
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