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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does June want to be the centerpiece of the memoir Jeremy is writing about her?
(a) Her divorce.
(b) Her marriage to Bernard.
(c) A certain Christmas dinner.
(d) The black dogs.

2. What does June tell Bernard she wants to do when he finally catches up with her after she has seen the black dogs?
(a) She wants a divorce.
(b) She wants to turn back.
(c) She wants to move on.
(d) She wants to vomit.

3. Bernard quotes some lines attributed to Isaiah Berlin to Jeremy. What are they about?
(a) The fatal quality of utopia.
(b) The risks of Communism.
(c) Hitler's Nazi Party.
(d) Freedom of choice for all people.

4. What did Jeremy realize to be the simplest way of getting back a lost parent?
(a) To only hang around with old people.
(b) To become one yourself.
(c) By writing a family history.
(d) Looking at old family photos.

5. What is inferred in the last sentence of the Preface?
(a) Jeremy believes in ghosts and spiritualism.
(b) June and Bernard never forgive Jeremy.
(c) June and Bernard haunt Jeremy's home.
(d) June and Bernard are dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?

2. When Jeremy asks Bernard if he wants to sit and rest for a while as they make their way to a cafe, why does Bernard leave his side?

3. What did Bernard usually do when he knew Jeremy had just been to see June?

4. As June and Bernard made their way toward Les Salces and got lost following Mme. Auriac's map, with whom did they meet up?

5. Bernard tells people that June believes the dogs she encountered on the path were something other than just dogs. What were they?

(see the answer key)

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