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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 does Mme. Auriac give to Jeremy while waiting for the police to arrive?
(a) A kiss on the cheek.
(b) His dessert.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) A cognac.

2. Who ends up saving Bernard from the teenagers?
(a) A West German policeman.
(b) An East German policeman.
(c) Jeremy.
(d) A young woman who yells at them.

3. When Bernard and Jeremy look out over the border and the Wall from an observation stand in Part Two, what one word does Jeremy have to say?
(a) Communism.
(b) Down.
(c) Peace.
(d) Utopia.

4. In Part Two, Bernard and Jeremy see a deserted watchtower over sand that conceal land mines. What do they see there?
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Nothing but memories.
(c) A child running.
(d) Rats.

5. What is the name of the woman in the crowd who Bernard notes looks a little bit like June?
(a) Helga.
(b) Grete.
(c) Maria.
(d) Astrid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jeremy believes the man in the crowd holding a Communist flag is of a certain nationality. What is it?

3. When Jeremy speaks to the father eating dinner in the hotel, what grammatical error does he make?

4. When Jeremy asks Bernard if he wants to sit and rest for a while as they make their way to a cafe, why does Bernard leave his side?

5. When does Jeremy state he intended to originally end the memoir he is writing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Jeremy and Bernard begin to discuss things that June told Jeremy for her memoir, what is Bernard's initial reaction?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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