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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. Why does Jeremy go knocking on his friend, Toby's, door?
2. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
3. What organization did June join when she was eighteen-years-old?
4. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?
5. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Jeremy state that he naturally identifies with an abandoned child like Sally?
2. 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?
3. What was it about his friends' parents that interested Jeremy?
4. Why did Jeremy feel that Toby Langley did not appreciate his parents?
5. How did Jeremy feel about leaving home for Oxford and being free to live on his own?
6. How does June feel that Bernard is so different from her?
7. Why did Jeremy not ever return to Notting Hill?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
When the story that the Maire told about the black dogs is explained, how does this affect June? How does it explain the dogs she saw and her premonition about them?
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