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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What symbol do some of the teenage boys who harass Bernard have on their selves?
(a) Skull and crossbones.
(b) Swastikas.
(c) Peace signs.
(d) Sickle and hammers.

2. What deformity did Jenny have at birth?
(a) A cleft mouth.
(b) One toe missing on her right foot.
(c) A sixth finger on one hand.
(d) A dent in her forehead.

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

4. Why does Bernard stare at girls on the street?
(a) He wonders if they could be converted to the Party.
(b) He is attracted to beautiful young women.
(c) He thinks of his daughter, Jenny.
(d) He is looking for a trace of the old June.

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

6. What does Jeremy ask Bernard when he speaks of June and Bernard's love for one another?
(a) Why would you never get a divorce and end it?
(b) How many other lovers did you have?
(c) How could you waste so much time?
(d) Did you know Jenny hated you both?

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

12. In Part Two, what news does Bernard have when he calls Jeremy and Jenny at home?
(a) The Berlin Wall is coming down.
(b) He is leaving for a vacation in Germany.
(c) He was getting remarried soon.
(d) He is very ill and may be dying.

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

14. What is it about a small boy dining at the hotel that touches Jeremy?
(a) He feels the boy's loneliness.
(b) The boy's friendliless towards everyone.
(c) The boy is very obedient to his family.
(d) Jeremy has a grown-up conversation with him.

15. What was Jeremy's reason for his five hour walk to the dolmen?
(a) To recreate Bernard and June's love before their big quarrel began.
(b) To consider his relationship with Jenny.
(c) To allign himself with nature the way June and Bernard once did.
(d) To exercise in a spot he knew well.

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. In Part Two when Bernard questions Jeremy about what June spoke of when they discussed the memoir, what does he ask?

3. What does Bernard tell Jeremy they are standing near when they come upon a very large hole?

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

5. What feeling does Jeremy get when he enters the family chalet?

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