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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jeremy unable to eat his breakfast at the convention where he met Jenny?

2. In Part Two, what news does Bernard have when he calls Jeremy and Jenny at home?

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

4. What does Jeremy ask Bernard when he speaks of June and Bernard's love for one another?

5. When Jenny told Jeremy she considered him a friend and touched his hand, what happened next?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. When Jeremy is working outside the bergerie the day after he arrives, he is pruning peach trees. What do Bernard and June say to one another in his imagination?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When June kills the dogs, she is also killing something else in a symbolic fashion. What is she getting rid of, and why? What does she find that is new for her? In what way does her encounter change June, and how does it affect her relationship with Bernard?

Essay Topic 2

June's black dogs and Bernard's caterpillars are symbolic of their separate ways of viewing the world. How is that so?

Essay Topic 3

When a tough girl in leather saves Bernard from nearly being killed by a gang of boys in Berlin, who did that girl represent? Why? Does Bernard believe in this symbol?

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