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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Bernard and June are waiting at the train station to go into Arles, why do they walk into town instead of continuing to wait?

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

3. 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?

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

5. When Jeremy first meets Jenny at a convention, why is that he can't get to speak to her alone?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

When the story that the Maire told about the black dogs is explained, how does this affect June? How does it explain the dogs she saw and her premonition about them?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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