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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. During June's generation, what was the worst possible thing that could happen to a girl?
(a) Getting a divorce.
(b) Not being married by the age of 25.
(c) Being pregnant outside of marriage.
(d) Becoming a nun.

2. Why does Jeremy go knocking on his friend, Toby's, door?
(a) To hang out.
(b) To spend time with Toby's parents.
(c) To have a game of ball.
(d) To go drinking at Notting Hill.

3. What was one of the reasons Jeremy did not pursue girls at the age of seventeen?
(a) He was busy with two jobs.
(b) He was not attracted to them.
(c) He felt he was not good looking enough.
(d) It would distract him from his school work.

4. What was June's job when she first encountered Bernard?
(a) Senator's secretary.
(b) Socialist Party leader.
(c) French teacher for foreign diplomat's children.
(d) Interpreter and occasional translator of French documents.

5. What is it that Jeremy's young son, Alexander, keeps asking on the car ride to the cemetery?
(a) "Are we there yet?"
(b) "WIll Grandpa die too?"
(c) "Why did Grandma die?"
(d) "When is she coming back?"

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bernard entertain in restaurants?

2. What completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?

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

4. What was Jeremy writing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jeremy in such discomfort at a point in Part One when June is speaking to him of God and religion?

2. Why did Jeremy feel that Toby Langley did not appreciate his parents?

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

4. What thoughts are probably going through Jeremy's mind as he watches June plants flower bulbs?

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

6. In June's version of how she and Bernard first met, she actively pursues him, making sure that Bernard sees her when he is near his office. She even tries to make small talk with him. Why does June pursue Bernard when he does not even seem to notice her?

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

8. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?

9. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard were still obsessed with each other in a physical way, what is Jeremy's reaction?

10. In Bernard's version of how he and June first met, he says that he could see no point in her job, therefore he did not notice her at all. In his world, she did not even exist until someone told him that she was beautiful. What might this say about Bernard's personality?

(see the answer keys)

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