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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. Why won't Bernard make conversation with the taxi driver who takes him to the airport?
(a) He does not speak French.
(b) He is too "real" and "common" for Bernard to deal with.
(c) Bernard is afraid the argument will get violent.
(d) Bernard does not want to pay the fare.

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

3. 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 cannot talk about it.
(c) That it is a family phrase.
(d) That she had read it somewhere.

4. In Part Three of the book, Jeremy asks Bernard to tell him the details of a story. Which story is that?
(a) The truth behind Bernard's injured leg.
(b) The Maire's story about the dogs.
(c) The story of Hitler's invasion of France.
(d) How June acted in the Hotel des Tilleuls.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Hotel des Tilleuls' owner?

2. What is it about a small boy dining at the hotel that touches Jeremy?

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

4. Bernard accuses June of having left the Party years before he did, but for a different reason. What was her reason, according to Bernard?

5. What did the sign posted outside of Majdanek's main entrance not mention?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Jeremy first meets Jenny at a convention, why is that he can't get to speak to her alone?

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

4. When Bernard and Jeremy get the key from Gunter to an apartment they will stay at in Berlin, how is Gunter right when he tells them it is not a good idea to go to the Wall?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. When Bernard finishes telling Jeremy the story in Part Two of how Bernard thought women and men think differently, and that women such as June think in magical terms, what is Jeremy thinking?

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