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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. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
2. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?
3. What was one of the reasons Jeremy did not pursue girls at the age of seventeen?
4. What was June's job when she first encountered Bernard?
5. In what way were June and Bernard alike in the beginning of their relationship?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why did June and Bernard separate, according to the Preface?
3. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?
4. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard were still obsessed with each other in a physical way, what is Jeremy's reaction?
5. Why did Jeremy not ever return to Notting Hill?
6. How did Jeremy feel about leaving home for Oxford and being free to live on his own?
7. Why does Jeremy state that he naturally identifies with an abandoned child like Sally?
8. When Bernard and June were not talking about their own personal world while dating, what were their conversations about?
9. 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?
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
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
Compare and contrast June and Bernard's personalities and belief systems.
Essay Topic 3
As early as the Preface of the book, Jeremy states that the simplest way of restoring a lost parent is to become a parent yourself. What do you think he meant by this statement? How is it true or false? How does this statement reflect Jeremy's relationship with Sally?
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