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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bernard's profession?
(a) An entomologist.
(b) A politician.
(c) A veterinarian.
(d) A medical doctor.

2. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?
(a) How beautiful she still was.
(b) How much she had changed.
(c) That she looks better now than she did then.
(d) That she looks happier now than she did then.

3. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?
(a) Counts the headstones.
(b) Watches the sunset.
(c) Cries.
(d) Has a cigarette.

4. As she lay ill in bed, who do we learn June is jealous of as regards Bernard?
(a) His secretary.
(b) His housekeeper.
(c) Any woman he meets.
(d) The nurses who chat with him.

5. What is happening in Jean and Harper's relationship?
(a) They are coming apart.
(b) They are engaged.
(c) They have decided to have an "open marriage".
(d) They are expecting another child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jeremy's reaction to discovering what June and Bernard's obsession together had been?

2. What did Jeremy realize to be the simplest way of getting back a lost parent?

3. What were June and Bernard doing at the time the photograph in Part One was taken?

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

5. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?

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