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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?
(a) How beautiful she still was.
(b) How much she had changed.
(c) That she looks better now than she did then.
(d) That she looks happier now than she did then.

2. In Part Two when Bernard questions Jeremy about what June spoke of when they discussed the memoir, what does he ask?
(a) If she had turned back to Communism in the end.
(b) If she spoke about their lives in a very personal way.
(c) Whether religion was something she really believed in.
(d) How she felt about dying alone.

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

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?
(a) To chat with the American soldiers.
(b) To make a speech about Communism's fall to small crowd.
(c) To go towards a man with a Communist flag who is holding up traffic.
(d) To hurry towards the cafe on his own.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the father of the small boy at dinner lights a cigarette, why does that give Jeremy a tiny bit of relief?

2. What does Jenny tell Jeremy when he asks why she mentioned black dogs earlier?

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

4. Where did Jenny's parents live when Jeremy first met them?

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

(see the answer key)

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