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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 does Bernard say he misses most about June?

3. Why does Bernard stare at girls on the street?

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

5. How does Bernard react to Jeremy's knowledge of where they had met the women who helped Bernard get to a taxi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain whether this novel is politically or religiously skewed. Has the author made his feelings on the subjects known by the end of the story? How?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

While touring the concentration camp with Jeremy, Jenny mentions the "black dogs". What significance does this hold for her? How is she relating it to Majdanek?

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