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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1930.

2. Besides Communism, what is one of June's other passions as a young girl?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Financial matters.
(c) Reading literary novels.
(d) The countryside.

3. When Jeremy spoke with Bernard, how did he feel about June?
(a) He felt June was right in her world beliefs.
(b) He was glad he knew her.
(c) He felt sorry for her.
(d) He knew June was outlandishlly wrong about the world.

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

5. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?
(a) He explains his affair with another woman.
(b) He describes his home life with Jenny.
(c) He recounts certain conversations.
(d) He writes about his dead parents.

6. At what stage was June put into the hospice?
(a) She never entered a hospice.
(b) Two weeks before she died.
(c) Seven years before she died.
(d) When she was terminal.

7. What did Bernard usually do when he knew Jeremy had just been to see June?
(a) He called Jeremy to see how ill June was.
(b) He did nothing, as he did not care.
(c) He asked if June needed anything.
(d) He telephoned Jeremy to ask if she'd been talking about him.

8. What was Jeremy writing?
(a) A family history.
(b) His autobiography.
(c) Bernard's travelogues.
(d) June's memoir.

9. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?
(a) His parents.
(b) His leg.
(c) His new car.
(d) His niece.

10. Why does Jeremy state that he was something of a parent at the age of seventeen?
(a) He felt older than all of his school friends.
(b) His girlfirend got pregnant and ran away.
(c) He took care of his sister's only child.
(d) He wanted to become a teacher.

11. What did June discover about herself the morning after the dolmen?
(a) She had physical courage.
(b) She was a tired woman.
(c) She could not have children.
(d) She loved another man.

12. What completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?
(a) Jeremy's work.
(b) Bernard's drinking.
(c) Jenny's inability to have a child.
(d) June's illness.

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

14. What does Bernard look like?
(a) He is scrawny and plain looking.
(b) He is large with a generous face.
(c) He is bald with a goatee.
(d) He is obese and bald.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harper do for a living?

2. Where did June and Bernard have their first pre-marital intimate encounter?

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

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

5. What was June's basic view about life?

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