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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 a group of teenagers surround Bernard, what does he tell them?

2. How does Jenny react when Jeremy tells her that he thinks he is going mad with listening to these conversations in his head?

3. When Jeremy speaks to the father eating dinner in the hotel, what grammatical error does he make?

4. Upon Jeremy's return to the hotel after his walk to the dolmen, what does he overhear in the kitchen?

5. When Jeremy, in Part Two, tells Bernard what June spoke about in a personal way about the two of them, how does Bernard react?

Short Essay Questions

1. Jeremy asks Bernard if he's ever had the feeling that he was tempting fate. What response does Bernard give to that?

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. When Jeremy and Jenny visit a concentration camp near Lublin, what does Jenny finally say to him after an hour of silence?

7. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What problems do the three main characters in this story encounter? Do they manage to resolve them by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The black dogs that June encountered were more than dogs to her. They were a symbol of great importance. What did they symbolize to her? In what way does her belief bear some truth?

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