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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way did Jeremy identify with Sally?
(a) He knew they were related.
(b) He felt they were both abandoned children.
(c) They had the same features and coloring.
(d) They loved to play the same games.

2. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?
(a) Two dogs running down a path.
(b) Dogs chasing down rabbits.
(c) Dogs falling from a gorge.
(d) Two dogs fighting with one another.

3. Why did Bernard entertain in restaurants?
(a) He loved to eat.
(b) He was a television personality.
(c) He was a chef.
(d) He was a public figure.

4. In what way did June become a spiritual person?
(a) She went to India to meditate.
(b) She observed the vicious death of her pet dog.
(c) Through an encounter with two dogs.
(d) Through a visit to Fatima.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?

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

3. What kind of religious service is performed at June's burial?

4. What does Bernard look like?

5. Why did Jeremy work so hard at studying for his A levels?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Bernard's grandson, Alexander, asks his cousin, Harry, at June's burial when his grandma will be coming back, how does Harry's answer nearly sum up June's and Bernard's relationship problems?

2. Although June and Bernard appear to be living separate lives in Part One, why does Bernard visit her and want news of her from Jeremy?

3. Why did Jeremy not ever return to Notting Hill?

4. When Bernard and June were not talking about their own personal world while dating, what were their conversations about?

5. How did Jeremy feel about leaving home for Oxford and being free to live on his own?

6. Why does Jeremy state that he naturally identifies with an abandoned child like Sally?

7. What was it about his friends' parents that interested Jeremy?

8. During one of her conversations with Jeremy, June talks about her obsessive relationship with Bernard and their love for one another that could not work. How does June find peace with this?

9. Describe Jeremy's method of spending time with his friends' parents.

10. When did Jeremy, in the Prologue, feel that he really began to exist or to live?

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