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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. Where does Jeremy realize he and Bernard had seen the woman and her friend who helps them to a taxi?
(a) In London years ago.
(b) At the Dolmen.
(c) At the Brandenburg Gate.
(d) As part of the group of teenagers.

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

3. In Part Two, what does Bernard say he misses most about June?
(a) Her seriousness about life.
(b) Her carefree spirit.
(c) Her laughter.
(d) Her ability to cope with stress.

4. 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 told him she wanted to marry him one day.
(c) She kissed him in front of all the men "in the race".
(d) She spit into his face for no reason.

5. 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 begins to cry.
(b) He laughs and says it was just like her to say that.
(c) He is angry and says she got an important detail wrong.
(d) He turns on his heel and leaves Jeremy without a word.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who holds the little boy who fell to the floor?

3. In Part Two, what news does Bernard have when he calls Jeremy and Jenny at home?

4. When Bernard finally thanks the person who saved him from the teenagers, how does he do it?

5. About how many people have gathered to watch the Berlin Wall fall in Part Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Bernard asks Jeremy to accompany him to Berlin, what makes him agree even though he is due to be in France?

2. 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?

3. Bernard talks to Jeremy about he and June staying in a little town on their way home from Italy and on the way to the gorge. Bernard had been with only June for hours without any time alone. How does he feel when he goes out for a walk and is alone with his thoughts?

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

5. What would be an apt description of the small family staying at the hotel?

6. 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?

7. When Jeremy becomes part of a squabble with a father in the hotel, why does he feel it to be a drama played out for his behalf?

8. What is it that Jeremy mulls over as having discouraged him from rushing to open the electrical cupboard to turn on the lights, and why?

9. How does the taxi driver's intervention in Bernard's speech during the cab ride affect him?

10. When Jeremy and Jenny visit a concentration camp near Lublin, what does Jenny finally say to him after an hour of silence?

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