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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. Where was June living when Jeremy was visiting her and taking notes in Part One?
2. What did Jean think of Jeremy's friend, Toby?
3. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
4. Why does Jeremy state that he was something of a parent at the age of seventeen?
5. What did Jeremy think of his friends' need to disassociate themselves from their parents?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. Why does Jeremy state that he naturally identifies with an abandoned child like Sally?
4. How did Jeremy feel about leaving home for Oxford and being free to live on his own?
5. How does Jeremy feel about his friends' parents?
6. In what way did Sally react when she could hear her parents having one of their violent arguments?
7. What thoughts are probably going through Jeremy's mind as he watches June plants flower bulbs?
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. When did Jeremy, in the Prologue, feel that he really began to exist or to live?
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
Compare and contrast June and Bernard's personalities and belief systems.
Essay Topic 2
How does Jeremy feel he was used by June and Bernard while she was in the nursing home? How did June manipulate him into getting messages to Bernard and vice versa? How did Jeremy react to being caught in the middle? What realization might he come to about having parents and marriage?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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