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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 happens to the boy having dinner at the hotel?
(a) He is attacked by dogs.
(b) He faints.
(c) He throws up his dinner.
(d) He is beaten by his father.

2. Where does Jeremy stop for a beer while walking through St. Maurice?
(a) In a bar in the next town over.
(b) In the woods.
(c) The hotel where June and Bernard honeymooned.
(d) At a farm, La Prunarede.

3. In Part Two, what does Bernard say he misses most about June?
(a) Her ability to cope with stress.
(b) Her laughter.
(c) Her carefree spirit.
(d) Her seriousness about life.

4. In Part Two, what news does Bernard have when he calls Jeremy and Jenny at home?
(a) He is very ill and may be dying.
(b) He is leaving for a vacation in Germany.
(c) He was getting remarried soon.
(d) The Berlin Wall is coming down.

5. When Jenny told Jeremy she considered him a friend and touched his hand, what happened next?
(a) He backed away.
(b) He stood still, not knowing what to do.
(c) He told her he had a girlfriend in England.
(d) He kissed her.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Jeremy state he intended to originally end the memoir he is writing?

2. Who holds the little boy who fell to the floor?

3. What is the name of the Hotel des Tilleuls' owner?

4. What does June tell Bernard shortly after they are married and Bernard kills an insect?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Bernard and June are waiting at the train station to go into Arles, why do they walk into town instead of continuing to wait?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. In Part Three when Jeremy and Bernard are at the airport, how does Bernard answer Jeremy's question about the black dogs?

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 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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