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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. How long did Bernard stay in the Communist Party?
2. Where does Jeremy stop for a beer while walking through St. Maurice?
3. What are Jeremy and Bernard walking towards in Part Two to get to a better section of the Wall?
4. Bernard quotes some lines attributed to Isaiah Berlin to Jeremy. What are they about?
5. About how many people have gathered to watch the Berlin Wall fall in Part Two?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Jeremy afraid when he goes to open the bergerie after it had been closed up for two months?
2. When Jeremy and Bernard share a cab to the airport, what do they talk about?
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. When Jeremy and Bernard begin to discuss things that June told Jeremy for her memoir, what is Bernard's initial reaction?
6. When Jeremy and Jenny visit a concentration camp near Lublin, what does Jenny finally say to him after an hour of silence?
7. How does the taxi driver's intervention in Bernard's speech during the cab ride affect him?
8. 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?
9. 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?
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
When June kills the dogs, she is also killing something else in a symbolic fashion. What is she getting rid of, and why? What does she find that is new for her? In what way does her encounter change June, and how does it affect her relationship with Bernard?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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