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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bernard accuses June of having left the Party years before he did, but for a different reason. What was her reason, according to Bernard?
(a) She converted to Stalinism.
(b) June saw a tragic flaw in Communism and became an atheist.
(c) June wanted to be as different from Bernard as she could be.
(d) June wanted to trade that utopian ideal for another.

2. Where does Jeremy stop for a beer while walking through St. Maurice?
(a) In a bar in the next town over.
(b) At a farm, La Prunarede.
(c) The hotel where June and Bernard honeymooned.
(d) In the woods.

3. What completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?
(a) Jenny's inability to have a child.
(b) Bernard's drinking.
(c) Jeremy's work.
(d) June's illness.

4. What does Jeremy do with the father who had been eating dinner with his family?
(a) He has a pleasant conversation about the dolmen with him.
(b) He only stares at him.
(c) He gives him a lecture about children.
(d) He punches and kicks him.

5. After Jenny and Jeremy visited Majdanek, how long was it before they spoke to one another?
(a) 24 hours.
(b) Two days.
(c) Five minutes.
(d) An hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jenny astound Jeremy within the second week of meeting him at the convention?

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

3. Where did Jenny want to go while at the convention?

4. After leaving Berlin and Bernard, where does Jeremy go?

5. How does Bernard refer to June's preoccupation with the spiritual world in Part Two?

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