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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Jeremy state he intended to originally end the memoir he is writing?
(a) After he gets up to leave the dolmen, taking a different path than his in-laws did.
(b) At the point where he marries Jenny.
(c) After his visit to a concentration camp.
(d) When he realizes that June and Bernard would never reconcile.

2. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?
(a) He explains his affair with another woman.
(b) He writes about his dead parents.
(c) He recounts certain conversations.
(d) He describes his home life with Jenny.

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

4. What were Bernard's feelings about June's commitment to the Communist Party after the incident with the insect in Part Two?
(a) That she had her own strange ideas and might not stick with it.
(b) He saw her leaning toward the defunct Nazi Party.
(c) That she had only pretended to believe in it all along.
(d) That she was more committed than he was.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Jeremy and Bernard walking towards in Part Two to get to a better section of the Wall?

2. When the teenagers take their leave, how do they do it without losing face?

3. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?

4. What is it that Jeremy's young son, Alexander, keeps asking on the car ride to the cemetery?

5. What did Jean and Harper spend a lot of their time doing?

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