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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. After leaving Berlin and Bernard, where does Jeremy go?

2. What is the name of the Hotel des Tilleuls' owner?

3. What is the name of the woman in the crowd who Bernard notes looks a little bit like June?

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

5. In Part Two, Bernard and Jeremy see a deserted watchtower over sand that conceal land mines. What do they see there?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Jeremy imagine Bernard would be telling him about June's perceived presence in the bergerie?

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

While touring the concentration camp with Jeremy, Jenny mentions the "black dogs". What significance does this hold for her? How is she relating it to Majdanek?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How does Jeremy feel he was used by June and Bernard while she was in the nursing home? How did June manipulate him into getting messages to Bernard and vice versa? How did Jeremy react to being caught in the middle? What realization might he come to about having parents and marriage?

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