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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. What does Jeremy do with the father who had been eating dinner with his family?

2. What deformity did Jenny have at birth?

3. When does Jeremy state he intended to originally end the memoir he is writing?

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

5. About how many people have gathered to watch the Berlin Wall fall in Part Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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 Bernard share a cab to the airport, what do they talk about?

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The black dogs that June encountered were more than dogs to her. They were a symbol of great importance. What did they symbolize to her? In what way does her belief bear some truth?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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