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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bernard quotes some lines attributed to Isaiah Berlin to Jeremy. What are they about?
(a) Freedom of choice for all people.
(b) Hitler's Nazi Party.
(c) The risks of Communism.
(d) The fatal quality of utopia.

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

4. Who holds the little boy who fell to the floor?
(a) Mme. Auriac.
(b) The cook.
(c) The woman from Paris.
(d) The waitress.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How long did Bernard stay in the Communist Party?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jeremy imagine Bernard would be telling him about June's perceived presence in the bergerie?

2. In Part Three when Jeremy and Bernard are at the airport, how does Bernard answer Jeremy's question about the black dogs?

3. How does it come to be that all of the hotel patrons end up eating dinner at the same time?

4. Why is Jeremy afraid when he goes to open the bergerie after it had been closed up for two months?

5. Bernard tells Jeremy as they are walking toward the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin that he thought certain things about June for the first six months after she died. What does he tell Jeremy?

6. When Jeremy and Jenny first speak to each other of their parents, what intrigues Jeremy?

7. Jeremy asks Bernard if he's ever had the feeling that he was tempting fate. What response does Bernard give to that?

8. When Jeremy and Bernard share a cab to the airport, what do they talk about?

9. When Bernard recalls the story in Part Two of him and June standing on the train platform and he asks June to give him a dragonfly, how does June know that Bernard wants to kill it?

10. What do the father and mother do to the boy at dinner?

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