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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
(a) Other college students.
(b) Parents of people his age.
(c) Little girls of three to five-years-old.
(d) No one.

2. Why is Part Two titled, "Berlin"?
(a) Jeremy and Bernard go to see the Berlin wall come down.
(b) Jeremy focuses on his first meeting with Jenny in Berlin.
(c) June died in Berlin.
(d) Bernard talks mostly about how communism began in Berlin.

3. How many children does Jeremy end up having?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) None.

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

5. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?
(a) His new car.
(b) His niece.
(c) His parents.
(d) His leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Bernard stay in the Communist Party?

2. What were Bernard's feelings about June's commitment to the Communist Party after the incident with the insect in Part Two?

3. In Part Two when Bernard questions Jeremy about what June spoke of when they discussed the memoir, what does he ask?

4. What happens to Bernard when a group of teenagers approach him at the Berlin Wall?

5. Jeremy believes the man in the crowd holding a Communist flag is of a certain nationality. What is it?

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