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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. At what stage was June put into the hospice?
2. What does June believe she discovered after the incident with the dogs?
3. What does Bernard think of living in and reflecting upon the present?
4. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?
5. June and Bernard had another obsession. What was it?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
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. 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. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard were still obsessed with each other in a physical way, what is Jeremy's reaction?
6. How does Jeremy feel about his friends' parents?
7. In what way did Sally react when she could hear her parents having one of their violent arguments?
8. How does June feel that Bernard is so different from her?
9. Why did Jeremy not ever return to Notting Hill?
10. Why does Jeremy state that he naturally identifies with an abandoned child like Sally?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The black dogs that June encountered were more than dogs to her. They were a symbol of great importance. What did they symbolize to her? In what way does her belief bear some truth?
Essay Topic 2
June's black dogs and Bernard's caterpillars are symbolic of their separate ways of viewing the world. How is that so?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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