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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jeremy discover on the switchboard cover in the bergerie?
(a) A cockroach.
(b) A black widow spider.
(c) A snake.
(d) A scorpion.

3. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?
(a) Educating them.
(b) Securing the future of the world.
(c) Getting love.
(d) Looking after yourself.

4. What does Jeremy ask Bernard when he speaks of June and Bernard's love for one another?
(a) How could you waste so much time?
(b) How many other lovers did you have?
(c) Why would you never get a divorce and end it?
(d) Did you know Jenny hated you both?

5. What is it that Jeremy's young son, Alexander, keeps asking on the car ride to the cemetery?
(a) "WIll Grandpa die too?"
(b) "Why did Grandma die?"
(c) "When is she coming back?"
(d) "Are we there yet?"

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the reasons Jeremy did not pursue girls at the age of seventeen?

2. When Jeremy tries to get some words in edgewise during the conversation he is overhearing, what do the voices do?

3. In what way did Jeremy identify with Sally?

4. Why was Jeremy so upset just before leaving for Oxford?

5. What was Jeremy's reason for his five hour walk to the dolmen?

(see the answer key)

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