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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 symbol do some of the teenage boys who harass Bernard have on their selves?
(a) Peace signs.
(b) Skull and crossbones.
(c) Sickle and hammers.
(d) Swastikas.

2. In Part Two, Bernard and Jeremy see a deserted watchtower over sand that conceal land mines. What do they see there?
(a) A child running.
(b) Nothing but memories.
(c) Rats.
(d) Rabbits.

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

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 recreate Bernard and June's love before their big quarrel began.
(c) To consider his relationship with Jenny.
(d) To allign himself with nature the way June and Bernard once did.

5. What does June tell Bernard shortly after they are married and Bernard kills an insect?
(a) She now hates him.
(b) She wants an annulment.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That he is a brilliant man of science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernard quotes some lines attributed to Isaiah Berlin to Jeremy. What are they about?

2. What happens to Bernard when a group of teenagers approach him at the Berlin Wall?

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

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

5. What does Mme. Auriac give the little boy who got hurt?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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