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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) Monique Auriac.
(b) Maurice Navacelles.
(c) Francois Gauloises.
(d) Danielle Bertrand.

2. In Part Three of the book, Jeremy asks Bernard to tell him the details of a story. Which story is that?
(a) The Maire's story about the dogs.
(b) How June acted in the Hotel des Tilleuls.
(c) The truth behind Bernard's injured leg.
(d) The story of Hitler's invasion of France.

3. When does Jeremy state he intended to originally end the memoir he is writing?
(a) At the point where he marries Jenny.
(b) When he realizes that June and Bernard would never reconcile.
(c) After his visit to a concentration camp.
(d) After he gets up to leave the dolmen, taking a different path than his in-laws did.

4. 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 wants to track them down and get their phone numbers.
(d) He calls it a coincidence and changes the subject.

5. Where do Jeremy and the father in the hotel restaurant go after speaking?
(a) To the kitchen.
(b) Back to their tables.
(c) Outside.
(d) Upstairs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the father of the small boy at dinner lights a cigarette, why does that give Jeremy a tiny bit of relief?

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

4. What was Jeremy's reason for his five hour walk to the dolmen?

5. What does Mme. Auriac give to Jeremy while waiting for the police to arrive?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. When Bernard finishes telling Jeremy the story in Part Two of how Bernard thought women and men think differently, and that women such as June think in magical terms, what is Jeremy thinking?

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

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