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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bernard react to Jeremy's knowledge of where they had met the women who helped Bernard get to a taxi?
(a) He wants to track them down and get their phone numbers.
(b) With great anxiety and fear.
(c) Upset that he will not see them again.
(d) He calls it a coincidence and changes the subject.

2. About how many people have gathered to watch the Berlin Wall fall in Part Two?
(a) 75,000.
(b) 800.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 2,000.

3. When Jeremy spoke with Bernard, how did he feel about June?
(a) He knew June was outlandishlly wrong about the world.
(b) He felt sorry for her.
(c) He felt June was right in her world beliefs.
(d) He was glad he knew her.

4. What does Bernard think of living in and reflecting upon the present?
(a) One can learn about life.
(b) It is the only way to live.
(c) It is self-indulgent.
(d) It should be combined with the past.

5. As she lay ill in bed, who do we learn June is jealous of as regards Bernard?
(a) The nurses who chat with him.
(b) His housekeeper.
(c) Any woman he meets.
(d) His secretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Jeremy eventually get married?

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

3. What is Jeremy's reaction to discovering what June and Bernard's obsession together had been?

4. What is inferred in the last sentence of the Preface?

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

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