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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 is Part Two titled, "Berlin"?
(a) Jeremy focuses on his first meeting with Jenny in Berlin.
(b) June died in Berlin.
(c) Jeremy and Bernard go to see the Berlin wall come down.
(d) Bernard talks mostly about how communism began in Berlin.

2. What time of day does Jeremy return to the bergerie?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Mid-afternoon.
(c) Noon.
(d) Early morning.

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

4. How did Jenny astound Jeremy within the second week of meeting him at the convention?
(a) She told him she wanted to marry him one day.
(b) She spit into his face for no reason.
(c) She asked him to go with her to Lublin.
(d) She kissed him in front of all the men "in the race".

5. What did the sign posted outside of Majdanek's main entrance not mention?
(a) Americans had died there.
(b) It was once a concentration camp.
(c) Black dogs were once there.
(d) That Jews had died there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Bernard's feelings about June's commitment to the Communist Party after the incident with the insect in Part Two?

2. When Bernard talks about June's wanting to living apart from him in Part Two, what does he refer to himself as?

3. In Part Three of the book, Jeremy asks Bernard to tell him the details of a story. Which story is that?

4. What happens to the boy having dinner at the hotel?

5. In what way did Jeremy realize he had heard of Jenny's father, Bernard Tremaine?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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