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

2. In what way did Jeremy realize he had heard of Jenny's father, Bernard Tremaine?
(a) He had read his autobiography.
(b) From a chance meeting at an airport.
(c) From television talk shows.
(d) From radio programs and his biography of Nasser.

3. Jeremy hears a running conversation in his head while in the bergerie, alone. Who is talking in his head?
(a) Sally and Jean.
(b) Jenny and he.
(c) June and Bernard.
(d) June and Jenny.

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

5. What time of day does Jeremy return to the bergerie?
(a) Early morning.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Mid-afternoon.
(d) Noon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After leaving Berlin and Bernard, where does Jeremy go?

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

4. What is the name of the woman in the crowd who Bernard notes looks a little bit like June?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When Jeremy is working outside the bergerie the day after he arrives, he is pruning peach trees. What do Bernard and June say to one another in his imagination?

6. When Bernard calls Jeremy and Jenny to tell them the Berlin Wall is coming down, how do they react?

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

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

9. When Bernard and June are waiting at the train station to go into Arles, why do they walk into town instead of continuing to wait?

10. 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?

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