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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of religious service is performed at June's burial?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Buddhist.
(c) Anglican.
(d) None.
2. How many children does Jeremy end up having?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Four.
(d) One.
3. Why was Jeremy so upset just before leaving for Oxford?
(a) Harper was threatening to kill him.
(b) His bags would not fit in his friend's car.
(c) He didn't think college was right for him.
(d) Sally was crying because he was going away.
4. In what way were June and Bernard alike in the beginning of their relationship?
(a) They were very spiritual.
(b) They were both communists.
(c) They both enjoyed theater and music.
(d) They were ophans.
5. 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.
6. Where did Jenny's parents live when Jeremy first met them?
(a) In the South of France.
(b) In North London.
(c) In separate countries.
(d) In Australia.
7. What did Jeremy continue to do after leaving North Oxford?
(a) Leaving places and people.
(b) Writing to Harper.
(c) Studying.
(d) Switching girlfriends.
8. What were June and Bernard doing at the time the photograph in Part One was taken?
(a) Bernard had just told June that he loved her.
(b) They had just secretly eloped.
(c) They were taking in the sights of Paris.
(d) They signed up as members of the Communist Party.
9. Besides Communism, what is one of June's other passions as a young girl?
(a) The countryside.
(b) Financial matters.
(c) Reading literary novels.
(d) Cricket.
10. Where did June and Bernard have their first pre-marital intimate encounter?
(a) At the dolmen.
(b) In the home of June's girlfriend.
(c) In a movie theater.
(d) In Bernard's car.
11. Why does Jeremy state that he was something of a parent at the age of seventeen?
(a) His girlfirend got pregnant and ran away.
(b) He took care of his sister's only child.
(c) He felt older than all of his school friends.
(d) He wanted to become a teacher.
12. How old is Jeremy's niece at the beginning of the story?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Newborn.
13. What is it that Jeremy's young son, Alexander, keeps asking on the car ride to the cemetery?
(a) "Why did Grandma die?"
(b) "WIll Grandpa die too?"
(c) "When is she coming back?"
(d) "Are we there yet?"
14. What was June's job when she first encountered Bernard?
(a) French teacher for foreign diplomat's children.
(b) Senator's secretary.
(c) Interpreter and occasional translator of French documents.
(d) Socialist Party leader.
15. Where did Toby Langley spend some of his childhood?
(a) In the Middle East, Kenya, and Venezuela.
(b) In Notting Hill.
(c) In the United States and Mexico.
(d) At Oxford.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Jean think of Jeremy's friend, Toby?
2. What was Jeremy writing?
3. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?
4. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?
5. What did Jeremy think of his friends' need to disassociate themselves from their parents?
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