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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. At the cultural convention where Jeremy first met Jenny, why were the men "in a race" to get to Jenny first?
2. Where did Jenny want to go while at the convention?
3. Jeremy believes the man in the crowd holding a Communist flag is of a certain nationality. What is it?
4. Who ends up saving Bernard from the teenagers?
5. In what way did Jeremy realize he had heard of Jenny's father, Bernard Tremaine?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What do the father and mother do to the boy at dinner?
3. In Part Three when Jeremy and Bernard are at the airport, how does Bernard answer Jeremy's question about the black dogs?
4. 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?
5. When Bernard calls Jeremy and Jenny to tell them the Berlin Wall is coming down, how do they react?
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. 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. 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. Jeremy asks Bernard if he's ever had the feeling that he was tempting fate. What response does Bernard give to that?
10. How does it come to be that all of the hotel patrons end up eating dinner at the same time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is it about June's story of the black dogs that might have someone believe it was her imagination? Point out phrases or words in the retelling of the scene to support your explanation.
Essay Topic 2
When Jeremy intervenes in the beating of the boy at dinner, who is he really thinking of? Is the young woman a symbol of anyone? What about the father or the waitress?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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