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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jean and Harper spend a lot of their time doing?
(a) Going to museums.
(b) Going out to the movies.
(c) Drinking and fighting.
(d) Taking cruises.

2. What is the Dolmen de la Prunarede?
(a) Jenny's ideal place to live.
(b) The place where June and Bernard married.
(c) Jeremy's home town.
(d) An ancient burial site that became a family site.

3. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?
(a) They were constantly at his home.
(b) They were so alike in all ways.
(c) He loved them.
(d) Due to a lifetime habit of befriending parental figures.

4. When the teenagers take their leave, how do they do it without losing face?
(a) One of them gives Bernard a punch in the stomach before leaving.
(b) They spit and curse at the crowd.
(c) They shoot a gun in the air.
(d) They walk away slowly and pretend they are bored.

5. When Bernard and Jeremy are at the Berlin Wall, why are some of the crowd watching and listening to them both?
(a) Jeremy is screaming that Bernard is the father he never had.
(b) Bernard is crying loudly, asking for June.
(c) Jeremy is yelling at Bernard about love.
(d) They are hitting one another in the arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?

2. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?

3. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?

4. When Jeremy asks Bernard if he wants to sit and rest for a while as they make their way to a cafe, why does Bernard leave his side?

5. What is happening in Jean and Harper's relationship?

(see the answer key)

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