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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. When a group of teenagers surround Bernard, what does he tell them?
(a) To take off and leave.
(b) To explain their tatoos.
(c) To march with the crowd.
(d) To take pity on him.

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

3. Where does Jeremy stop for a beer while walking through St. Maurice?
(a) In the woods.
(b) At a farm, La Prunarede.
(c) In a bar in the next town over.
(d) The hotel where June and Bernard honeymooned.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ends up saving Bernard from the teenagers?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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