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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 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 punches and kicks him.
(c) He only stares at him.
(d) He gives him a lecture about children.

2. When the father of the small boy at dinner lights a cigarette, why does that give Jeremy a tiny bit of relief?
(a) The cigarette will not light.
(b) He hopes he can borrow a cigarette from him.
(c) He knows the man will not bother him.
(d) The man's hands are a little shaky.

3. At the cultural convention where Jeremy first met Jenny, why were the men "in a race" to get to Jenny first?
(a) She was beautiful, the only woman there, and very distant towards them.
(b) She was pretty, extremely fun to be with, and outgoing.
(c) She flirted with all of the men there.
(d) She was the prettiest woman out of the five other women there.

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

5. How does Bernard refer to June's preoccupation with the spiritual world in Part Two?
(a) Hocus-pocus.
(b) New Agism.
(c) Born Again Christianity.
(d) Bohemianism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bernard react to Jeremy's knowledge of where they had met the women who helped Bernard get to a taxi?

2. Where do Jeremy and the father in the hotel restaurant go after speaking?

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

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

5. How does Jenny react when Jeremy tells her that he thinks he is going mad with listening to these conversations in his head?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. When Jeremy and Jenny visit a concentration camp near Lublin, what does Jenny finally say to him after an hour of silence?

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

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

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

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