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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 feeling does Jeremy get when he enters the family chalet?
(a) He is overcome with exhaustion.
(b) He feels uneasy, as though he is being watched.
(c) He is filled with peace at being there.
(d) He is depressed.

2. How long did Bernard stay in the Communist Party?
(a) Ten years.
(b) All his life so far.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Twenty years.

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

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

5. What does Jeremy do with the father who had been eating dinner with his family?
(a) He has a pleasant conversation about the dolmen with him.
(b) He gives him a lecture about children.
(c) He punches and kicks him.
(d) He only stares at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernard quotes some lines attributed to Isaiah Berlin to Jeremy. What are they about?

2. Why is Part Two titled, "Berlin"?

3. What is the name of the Hotel des Tilleuls' owner?

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

5. When Bernard and Jeremy are at the Berlin Wall, why are some of the crowd watching and listening to them both?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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