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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 talks about June's wanting to living apart from him in Part Two, what does he refer to himself as?

2. Where does Jeremy realize he and Bernard had seen the woman and her friend who helps them to a taxi?

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

4. In Part Two, what does Bernard say he misses most about June?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. In Part Three when Jeremy and Bernard are at the airport, how does Bernard answer Jeremy's question about the black dogs?

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

After Junes' death, Bernard explains his feelings for her to Jeremy. If Bernard was in love with June, why could they not live together? Is it Bernard's or June's personality which got in the way of reconciliation? What was it about June, in particular, that kept the couple apart?

Essay Topic 2

June's black dogs and Bernard's caterpillars are symbolic of their separate ways of viewing the world. How is that so?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast June and Bernard's personalities and belief systems.

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