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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What finally drew Bernard away from the Communist Party?
(a) The difficulty in traveling to Russia.
(b) The contradictions between the reality and the fantasy of it.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) June did.

2. When do Jenny and Jeremy end up getting married?
(a) They never actually marry.
(b) Ten months after they first meet.
(c) The day after their first excursion together.
(d) Three years after meeting.

3. Jeremy believes the man in the crowd holding a Communist flag is of a certain nationality. What is it?
(a) Turkish.
(b) American.
(c) Egyptian.
(d) Russian.

4. How does Bernard refer to June's preoccupation with the spiritual world in Part Two?
(a) New Agism.
(b) Born Again Christianity.
(c) Bohemianism.
(d) Hocus-pocus.

5. Why was Jeremy hesitant to visit Majdanek?
(a) He did not have the time.
(b) He had been to Belsen once and that was enough for him.
(c) He was reluctant to spend the money.
(d) He did not understand why anyone would go there.

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

7. What does Jenny tell Jeremy when he asks why she mentioned black dogs earlier?
(a) That it was a dream she had.
(b) That she had read it somewhere.
(c) That it is a family phrase.
(d) That she cannot talk about it.

8. Why was Jeremy unable to eat his breakfast at the convention where he met Jenny?
(a) He found her distant and annoying at the breakfast table.
(b) He could not bare to see Jenny at breakfast so he skipped it.
(c) He threw up every time he ran into Jenny so he stopped eating.
(d) At first sight of her at breakfast, he became lovesick and lost his appetite.

9. What does Jeremy discover on the switchboard cover in the bergerie?
(a) A black widow spider.
(b) A cockroach.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A snake.

10. Who ends up saving Bernard from the teenagers?
(a) Jeremy.
(b) A West German policeman.
(c) A young woman who yells at them.
(d) An East German policeman.

11. How does Jenny react when Jeremy tells her that he thinks he is going mad with listening to these conversations in his head?
(a) She lets him know that he asked for it.
(b) She tells him to rush to a hospital.
(c) She cries.
(d) She implies that she will rush over to be with him.

12. 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 was more committed than he was.
(b) That she had her own strange ideas and might not stick with it.
(c) He saw her leaning toward the defunct Nazi Party.
(d) That she had only pretended to believe in it all along.

13. What does Mme. Auriac give to Jeremy while waiting for the police to arrive?
(a) A cognac.
(b) His dessert.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) A kiss on the cheek.

14. What happens to Bernard when a group of teenagers approach him at the Berlin Wall?
(a) He is dragged through the streets by his legs.
(b) He is called names and becomes embarassed.
(c) He is beaten to death.
(d) He gets kicked in the shin and falls down.

15. What does Bernard tell Jeremy they are standing near when they come upon a very large hole?
(a) The Nazi Party's last battle with the enemy.
(b) A mass grave site for Russian soldiers.
(c) Hitler's bunker.
(d) An old Gestapo headquarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won't Bernard make conversation with the taxi driver who takes him to the airport?

2. What does Jeremy do with the father who had been eating dinner with his family?

3. What does Jeremy ask Bernard when he speaks of June and Bernard's love for one another?

4. When Bernard and Jeremy look out over the border and the Wall from an observation stand in Part Two, what one word does Jeremy have to say?

5. What does Mme. Auriac give the little boy who got hurt?

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