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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Jeremy and the father in the hotel restaurant go after speaking?
(a) To the kitchen.
(b) Upstairs.
(c) Outside.
(d) Back to their tables.

2. How did Jenny astound Jeremy within the second week of meeting him at the convention?
(a) She asked him to go with her to Lublin.
(b) She kissed him in front of all the men "in the race".
(c) She told him she wanted to marry him one day.
(d) She spit into his face for no reason.

3. What does Mme. Auriac give the little boy who got hurt?
(a) Bandages.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) An ice pack.
(d) A cold soda.

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

5. What does Jeremy do in Lublin that is so uncharacteristic of him?
(a) He asks Jenny to marry him on the spot.
(b) He gets very drunk and passes out.
(c) He shouts to the people around him that he is in love.
(d) He kisses Jenny spontaneously and professes his love.

6. When Jeremy tries to get some words in edgewise during the conversation he is overhearing, what do the voices do?
(a) They stop completely.
(b) There is violent yelling.
(c) They are silent for a few moments.
(d) They completely ignore him.

7. What was Bernard's attitude towards the insect and, as he understands now, most things and June?
(a) Loving and highly emotional.
(b) Unemotional and arrogant.
(c) Unresponsive and quiet.
(d) Humorous and carefree.

8. When the teenagers take their leave, how do they do it without losing face?
(a) They shoot a gun in the air.
(b) They spit and curse at the crowd.
(c) They walk away slowly and pretend they are bored.
(d) One of them gives Bernard a punch in the stomach before leaving.

9. When Jeremy, in Part Two, tells Bernard what June spoke about in a personal way about the two of them, how does Bernard react?
(a) He is angry and says she got an important detail wrong.
(b) He begins to cry.
(c) He turns on his heel and leaves Jeremy without a word.
(d) He laughs and says it was just like her to say that.

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

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

12. When Bernard talks about June's wanting to living apart from him in Part Two, what does he refer to himself as?
(a) Her magical fantasy.
(b) Her experiment.
(c) A thing she toyed with.
(d) One of her eggs.

13. How long did Bernard stay in the Communist Party?
(a) All his life so far.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Ten years.

14. In what way did Jeremy realize he had heard of Jenny's father, Bernard Tremaine?
(a) From a chance meeting at an airport.
(b) From radio programs and his biography of Nasser.
(c) He had read his autobiography.
(d) From television talk shows.

15. 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) How she felt about dying alone.
(c) If she spoke about their lives in a very personal way.
(d) Whether religion was something she really believed in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What finally drew Bernard away from the Communist Party?

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

3. Why is Part Two titled, "Berlin"?

4. Bernard quotes some lines attributed to Isaiah Berlin to Jeremy. What are they about?

5. At the cultural convention where Jeremy first met Jenny, why were the men "in a race" to get to Jenny first?

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