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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Harper end up doing by the end of the summer of Jeremy's eighteenth birthday?
(a) He went back to college for an external degree.
(b) He wrote his life story.
(c) He left Jean for good.
(d) He took Jean and left Sally with Jeremy.

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

3. How old is Jeremy's niece at the beginning of the story?
(a) Five.
(b) Newborn.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

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

6. How often did Jenny and her brothers see their parents?
(a) Hardly ever.
(b) Every day.
(c) Several times a year.
(d) Once a week.

7. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?
(a) June "stole" Bernard from another woman.
(b) They met by accident.
(c) They met on a blind date and disliked each other.
(d) They each have a different story about it.

8. What is Jeremy's reaction to discovering what June and Bernard's obsession together had been?
(a) He feels he knew it all the time.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Anger.
(d) He finds it difficult to imagine.

9. Bernard tells people that June believes the dogs she encountered on the path were something other than just dogs. What were they?
(a) Poltergeists.
(b) The ghosts of her parents.
(c) Angels.
(d) Satan's familiars.

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

11. What was June's basic view about life?
(a) God had no hand in it.
(b) Life was random.
(c) It had a purpose.
(d) It was best not to examine it.

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

13. At what age did Jeremy eventually get married?
(a) In his mid-thirties.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Twenty.
(d) In his forties.

14. What did Harper do for a living?
(a) He worked in a bank.
(b) He was a bouncer at a bar.
(c) He was a part-time teaher.
(d) He was a security guard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does June believe she discovered after the incident with the dogs?

2. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?

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

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

5. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?

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