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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 is the name of the Hotel des Tilleuls' owner?
(a) Francois Gauloises.
(b) Danielle Bertrand.
(c) Monique Auriac.
(d) Maurice Navacelles.

2. How does Bernard react to Jeremy's knowledge of where they had met the women who helped Bernard get to a taxi?
(a) Upset that he will not see them again.
(b) With great anxiety and fear.
(c) He calls it a coincidence and changes the subject.
(d) He wants to track them down and get their phone numbers.

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

4. Who calls Jeremy late at night to give him news of Berlin?
(a) Sally.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Harper.
(d) Bernard.

5. Upon Jeremy's return to the hotel after his walk to the dolmen, what does he overhear in the kitchen?
(a) Talk of the lack of food for the evening's dinner.
(b) A drunken brawl.
(c) A love spat between a husband and wife.
(d) The owners arguing over him.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Jenny and Jeremy visited Majdanek, how long was it before they spoke to one another?

2. 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?

3. In Part Three of the book, Jeremy asks Bernard to tell him the details of a story. Which story is that?

4. How does Bernard refer to June's preoccupation with the spiritual world in Part Two?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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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