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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. Why was Jeremy unable to eat his breakfast at the convention where he met Jenny?

2. When Bernard and Jeremy look out over the border and the Wall from an observation stand in Part Two, what one word does Jeremy have to say?

3. What does Jeremy ask Bernard when he speaks of June and Bernard's love for one another?

4. How does Bernard refer to June's preoccupation with the spiritual world in Part Two?

5. While Jeremy is eating dinner at the hotel, who are the other guests in the dining room with him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. When Jeremy and Jenny first speak to each other of their parents, what intrigues Jeremy?

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

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

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

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

9. When Bernard asks Jeremy to accompany him to Berlin, what makes him agree even though he is due to be in France?

10. 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?

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

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

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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