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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. How did June get her doctor on her side and change the staff's attitude toward her?
2. Bernard tells people that June believes the dogs she encountered on the path were something other than just dogs. What were they?
3. Where was June living when Jeremy was visiting her and taking notes in Part One?
4. Why did Bernard entertain in restaurants?
5. Besides Communism, what is one of June's other passions as a young girl?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part One, we know that Jeremy is a bit obsessed with looking at a photograph of June and Bernard that June keeps in her bedroom in the nursing home. What are Jeremy's predominant thoughts when he views the photo?
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. 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?
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. How does June feel that Bernard is so different from her?
7. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard were still obsessed with each other in a physical way, what is Jeremy's reaction?
8. 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?
9. How does Jeremy feel about his friends' parents?
10. Why did June and Bernard separate, according to the Preface?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain Jeremy's great attraction to other people's parents. What was he looking for in them? Does he ever find it? If so, how?
Essay Topic 2
What is it about June's story of the black dogs that might have someone believe it was her imagination? Point out phrases or words in the retelling of the scene to support your explanation.
Essay Topic 3
June's black dogs and Bernard's caterpillars are symbolic of their separate ways of viewing the world. How is that so?
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