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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 is it about a small boy dining at the hotel that touches Jeremy?

2. Where do Jeremy and the father in the hotel restaurant go after speaking?

3. What symbol do some of the teenage boys who harass Bernard have on their selves?

4. Where did Jenny want to go while at the convention?

5. What does Bernard tell Jeremy they are standing near when they come upon a very large hole?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jeremy is obsessed with studying the photograph of June as a young woman. What makes the photograph so appealing to him? Why? How does the appeal of the photograph of June contrast with the time in history the photograph was taken?

Essay Topic 2

At one point during Jeremy's conversations with June, she speaks of God and the halo of light around her body when she was up against the two dogs. She goes on to talk of the inner being, the healing power of love and belief in God. Jeremy is embarrassed for June at hearing her talk this way as he is when anyone speaks of such things. Why does Jeremy wince at this talk? What is he thinking about June's belief in a soul and an afterlife? Why does he believe she needs to have this "glad-hearted believing"? What does religion offer to those who believe, according to Jeremy?

Essay Topic 3

One line in Part Four reads "The empty air, suffused with sunlight, seemed to contain a darkness just beyond the reach of vision". Explain this sentence as it relates to the story as a whole. Give examples, citing scenes from the book to support your explanation.

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