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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 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) Utopia.
(d) Peace.

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

3. What is it about a small boy dining at the hotel that touches Jeremy?
(a) He feels the boy's loneliness.
(b) The boy is very obedient to his family.
(c) Jeremy has a grown-up conversation with him.
(d) The boy's friendliless towards everyone.

4. What does Jeremy do in Lublin that is so uncharacteristic of him?
(a) He gets very drunk and passes out.
(b) He asks Jenny to marry him on the spot.
(c) He kisses Jenny spontaneously and professes his love.
(d) He shouts to the people around him that he is in love.

5. What did the sign posted outside of Majdanek's main entrance not mention?
(a) That Jews had died there.
(b) It was once a concentration camp.
(c) Americans had died there.
(d) Black dogs were once there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Jenny astound Jeremy within the second week of meeting him at the convention?

3. What were Bernard's feelings about June's commitment to the Communist Party after the incident with the insect in Part Two?

4. When Jeremy tries to get some words in edgewise during the conversation he is overhearing, what do the voices do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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 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?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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