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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. When Jeremy asks Bernard if he wants to sit and rest for a while as they make their way to a cafe, why does Bernard leave his side?

2. Where does Jeremy realize he and Bernard had seen the woman and her friend who helps them to a taxi?

3. Where did Jeremy and Jenny first meet?

4. What is the name of the woman in the crowd who Bernard notes looks a little bit like June?

5. Why was Jeremy hesitant to visit Majdanek?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. What does Jeremy imagine Bernard would be telling him about June's perceived presence in the bergerie?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what scenes and under what circumstances does June seem to be involved in guiding or helping the still-living members of her family? Does she really have a hand in the matters cited or are the characters simply hoping she is still involved in their lives?

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

What does the last line in the book mean ("...as sleep rolls in they are receding from her, black stains in the gray of the dawn, fading as they move into the foothills of the mountains from where they will return to haunt us, somewhere in Europe, in another time")?

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