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Black Dogs | Quiz

Ian McEwan
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Black Dogs | Quiz

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1)

What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years? (from Part 1)

Dogs chasing down rabbits.
Two dogs fighting with one another.
Dogs falling from a gorge.
Two dogs running down a path.
2)

According to Mme. Auriac, how did the Maire and the Sauvy brothers drive Danielle out of the village? (from Part 4)

Her house was burned down.
They spread a story about her rape.
They had proof she was a prostitute.
She was accused of spying.
3)

What deformity did Jenny have at birth? (from Part 2)

A sixth finger on one hand.
A cleft mouth.
A dent in her forehead.
One toe missing on her right foot.
4)

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

That she looks happier now than she did then.
How beautiful she still was.
That she looks better now than she did then.
How much she had changed.
5)

What finally drew Bernard away from the Communist Party? (from Part 2)

The difficulty in traveling to Russia.
The Cold War.
The contradictions between the reality and the fantasy of it.
June did.
6)

Jeremy believes the man in the crowd holding a Communist flag is of a certain nationality. What is it? (from Part 2)

Russian.
Turkish.
American.
Egyptian.
7)

During the Maire's story, what does Mme. Auriac intervene to say happened to Danielle Bertrand? (from Part 4)

She had been murdered.
She had a heart attack.
She was arrested.
She was raped.
8)

As June and Bernard made their way toward Les Salces and got lost following Mme. Auriac's map, with whom did they meet up? (from Part 4)

A priest.
The Maire.
A shepherd with his dog.
The black dogs.
9)

Where does Jeremy realize he and Bernard had seen the woman and her friend who helps them to a taxi? (from Part 2)

At the Dolmen.
In London years ago.
As part of the group of teenagers.
At the Brandenburg Gate.
10)

Why is Part Two titled, "Berlin"? (from Part 2)

June died in Berlin.
Jeremy focuses on his first meeting with Jenny in Berlin.
Jeremy and Bernard go to see the Berlin wall come down.
Bernard talks mostly about how communism began in Berlin.
11)

What happens to the boy having dinner at the hotel? (from Part 3)

He faints.
He is attacked by dogs.
He throws up his dinner.
He is beaten by his father.
12)

Bernard quotes some lines attributed to Isaiah Berlin to Jeremy. What are they about? (from Part 2)

The fatal quality of utopia.
Hitler's Nazi Party.
The risks of Communism.
Freedom of choice for all people.
13)

In Part Two when Bernard questions Jeremy about what June spoke of when they discussed the memoir, what does he ask? (from Part 2)

If she had turned back to Communism in the end.
If she spoke about their lives in a very personal way.
How she felt about dying alone.
Whether religion was something she really believed in.
14)

What does June pick up to use as a weapon against the black dogs? (from Part 4)

Rocks.
A sharpened stick.
Her backpack.
The gun.
15)

What did Bernard usually do when he knew Jeremy had just been to see June? (from Part 1)

He did nothing, as he did not care.
He called Jeremy to see how ill June was.
He asked if June needed anything.
He telephoned Jeremy to ask if she'd been talking about him.
16)

What was Jeremy's reason for his five hour walk to the dolmen? (from Part 3)

To recreate Bernard and June's love before their big quarrel began.
To exercise in a spot he knew well.
To consider his relationship with Jenny.
To allign himself with nature the way June and Bernard once did.
17)

What stops Bernard from catching up with June while she encounters the black dogs? (from Part 4)

He becomes engrossed by a caravan of caterpillars.
He is a slow walker.
He has fallen and hurt his kneww.
He has stopped to eat.
18)

After Jenny and Jeremy visited Majdanek, how long was it before they spoke to one another? (from Part 3)

24 hours.
Two days.
An hour.
Five minutes.
19)

Why is June so angry with Bernard after her scene with the black dogs? (from Part 4)

He ignored her.
He was not there to help her.
He laughs at her.
He had run away at the sight of them.
20)

It suddenly occurs to Bernard as they walk toward the Bergerie de Tedenat in Part Four that he had never before thought of the human costs of the war. Why hasn't this occurred to him before? (from Part 4)

He had no children to think about.
He had been too busy with his overall political ambitions.
He did not have to fight the war.
He did not care about people at all.
21)

When Bernard finally thanks the person who saved him from the teenagers, how does he do it? (from Part 2)

He only smiles.
He offers her money as a thank you gift.
He kisses her hand in thanks.
He thanks her without looking at her face.
22)

What does Jeremy discover on the switchboard cover in the bergerie? (from Part 3)

A scorpion.
A cockroach.
A snake.
A black widow spider.
23)

When Bernard talks about June's wanting to living apart from him in Part Two, what does he refer to himself as? (from Part 2)

A thing she toyed with.
Her experiment.
One of her eggs.
Her magical fantasy.
24)

When does Jeremy state he intended to originally end the memoir he is writing? (from Part 3)

After his visit to a concentration camp.
At the point where he marries Jenny.
After he gets up to leave the dolmen, taking a different path than his in-laws did.
When he realizes that June and Bernard would never reconcile.
25)

Where did June and Bernard have their first pre-marital intimate encounter? (from Part 1)

In the home of June's girlfriend.
In a movie theater.
In Bernard's car.
At the dolmen.
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