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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jeremy do for Sally?
(a) He took her to school every day.
(b) He gave her meals.
(c) He took her away from her parents.
(d) He played with and looked after her.

2. When did Sally let on that she had been abused as a child?
(a) She never did.
(b) When she was about twenty-years-old.
(c) When she turned thirteen.
(d) When she was five-years-old.

3. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?
(a) Due to a lifetime habit of befriending parental figures.
(b) He loved them.
(c) They were so alike in all ways.
(d) They were constantly at his home.

4. To whom does Jeremy dedicate his memoir?
(a) His wife, Jenny, and his niece, Sally.
(b) The parents he spent many hours with.
(c) His niece, Sally, and his sister, Jean.
(d) His parents.

5. Why did Jeremy work so hard at studying for his A levels?
(a) To find the right girl at a new school.
(b) To attract an older woman.
(c) He wanted to prove how smart he reallly was.
(d) He wanted to go to university and leave home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Toby Langley spend some of his childhood?

2. Why does Jeremy go knocking on his friend, Toby's, door?

3. When Jeremy spoke with Bernard, how did he feel about June?

4. From what point of view is the novel written?

5. What did Jean and Harper spend a lot of their time doing?

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