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

2. About how many people have gathered to watch the Berlin Wall fall in Part Two?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 800.

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

4. In what way did Jeremy realize he had heard of Jenny's father, Bernard Tremaine?
(a) From radio programs and his biography of Nasser.
(b) From television talk shows.
(c) From a chance meeting at an airport.
(d) He had read his autobiography.

5. What happens to Bernard when a group of teenagers approach him at the Berlin Wall?
(a) He is dragged through the streets by his legs.
(b) He is called names and becomes embarassed.
(c) He gets kicked in the shin and falls down.
(d) He is beaten to death.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Jeremy do with the father who had been eating dinner with his family?

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

5. When Jeremy, in Part Two, tells Bernard what June spoke about in a personal way about the two of them, how does Bernard react?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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