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

2. Where does Jeremy stop for a beer while walking through St. Maurice?

3. About how many people have gathered to watch the Berlin Wall fall in Part Two?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Junes' death, Bernard explains his feelings for her to Jeremy. If Bernard was in love with June, why could they not live together? Is it Bernard's or June's personality which got in the way of reconciliation? What was it about June, in particular, that kept the couple apart?

Essay Topic 2

How does Jeremy feel he was used by June and Bernard while she was in the nursing home? How did June manipulate him into getting messages to Bernard and vice versa? How did Jeremy react to being caught in the middle? What realization might he come to about having parents and marriage?

Essay Topic 3

As early as the Preface of the book, Jeremy states that the simplest way of restoring a lost parent is to become a parent yourself. What do you think he meant by this statement? How is it true or false? How does this statement reflect Jeremy's relationship with Sally?

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