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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of religious service is performed at June's burial?
2. From what point of view is the novel written?
3. What was Jeremy writing?
4. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?
5. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Jeremy's friends, such as Toby and Joe, think of Jeremy in terms of being an orphan and living on his own mostly?
2. How does June feel that Bernard is so different from her?
3. What was it about his friends' parents that interested Jeremy?
4. Why did Jeremy feel that Toby Langley did not appreciate his parents?
5. Does Jeremy feel like a surrogate parent to Sally?
6. 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?
7. Why did Jeremy not ever return to Notting Hill?
8. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard were still obsessed with each other in a physical way, what is Jeremy's reaction?
9. What thoughts are probably going through Jeremy's mind as he watches June plants flower bulbs?
10. In what way do Jeremy and June disagree on June's reference to her story of the black dogs in Part One of the story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
June's black dogs and Bernard's caterpillars are symbolic of their separate ways of viewing the world. How is that so?
Essay Topic 2
When Jeremy intervenes in the beating of the boy at dinner, who is he really thinking of? Is the young woman a symbol of anyone? What about the father or the waitress?
Essay Topic 3
What does the last line in the book mean ("...as sleep rolls in they are receding from her, black stains in the gray of the dawn, fading as they move into the foothills of the mountains from where they will return to haunt us, somewhere in Europe, in another time")?
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