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

2. Bernard accuses June of having left the Party years before he did, but for a different reason. What was her reason, according to Bernard?

3. When the teenagers take their leave, how do they do it without losing face?

4. When Bernard and Jeremy are at the Berlin Wall, why are some of the crowd watching and listening to them both?

5. Why was Jeremy hesitant to visit Majdanek?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. What would be an apt description of the small family staying at the hotel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Jeremy's great attraction to other people's parents. What was he looking for in them? Does he ever find it? If so, how?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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