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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. Why was Jeremy hesitant to visit Majdanek?
(a) He did not understand why anyone would go there.
(b) He was reluctant to spend the money.
(c) He had been to Belsen once and that was enough for him.
(d) He did not have the time.

2. While Jeremy is eating dinner at the hotel, who are the other guests in the dining room with him?
(a) One other man and a small family.
(b) A large Italian family.
(c) A lone woman and a little boy.
(d) A small family and a lone woman.

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

4. What was Jeremy's reason for his five hour walk to the dolmen?
(a) To exercise in a spot he knew well.
(b) To allign himself with nature the way June and Bernard once did.
(c) To consider his relationship with Jenny.
(d) To recreate Bernard and June's love before their big quarrel began.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernard accuses June of having left the Party years before he did, but for a different reason. What was her reason, according to Bernard?

2. What does Jeremy discover on the switchboard cover in the bergerie?

3. What feeling does Jeremy get when he enters the family chalet?

4. When Bernard finally thanks the person who saved him from the teenagers, how does he do it?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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