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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 did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?

2. What did Harper end up doing by the end of the summer of Jeremy's eighteenth birthday?

3. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?

4. What did Harper do for a living?

5. What is happening in Jean and Harper's relationship?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jeremy feel about leaving home for Oxford and being free to live on his own?

2. 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?

3. In June's version of how she and Bernard first met, she actively pursues him, making sure that Bernard sees her when he is near his office. She even tries to make small talk with him. Why does June pursue Bernard when he does not even seem to notice her?

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 did Jeremy, in the Prologue, feel that he really began to exist or to live?

6. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?

7. How does Jeremy feel about his friends' parents?

8. Why did Jeremy not ever return to Notting Hill?

9. 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?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Explain whether this novel is politically or religiously skewed. Has the author made his feelings on the subjects known by the end of the story? How?

Essay Topic 3

Explain Jeremy's great attraction to other people's parents. What was he looking for in them? Does he ever find it? If so, how?

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