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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does June want to be the centerpiece of the memoir Jeremy is writing about her?
(a) Her marriage to Bernard.
(b) A certain Christmas dinner.
(c) Her divorce.
(d) The black dogs.

2. Why is Part Two titled, "Berlin"?
(a) Jeremy focuses on his first meeting with Jenny in Berlin.
(b) Jeremy and Bernard go to see the Berlin wall come down.
(c) June died in Berlin.
(d) Bernard talks mostly about how communism began in Berlin.

3. Why did Jeremy work so hard at studying for his A levels?
(a) He wanted to go to university and leave home.
(b) To find the right girl at a new school.
(c) He wanted to prove how smart he reallly was.
(d) To attract an older woman.

4. When Jeremy asks Bernard if he wants to sit and rest for a while as they make their way to a cafe, why does Bernard leave his side?
(a) To hurry towards the cafe on his own.
(b) To chat with the American soldiers.
(c) To go towards a man with a Communist flag who is holding up traffic.
(d) To make a speech about Communism's fall to small crowd.

5. What was Bernard's attitude towards the insect and, as he understands now, most things and June?
(a) Unemotional and arrogant.
(b) Loving and highly emotional.
(c) Humorous and carefree.
(d) Unresponsive and quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Bernard stay in the Communist Party?

2. What is it about Jeremy that reminds June of Bernard?

3. What is odd about the story of how June and Bernard first met and began to date?

4. What does Bernard tell Jeremy they are standing near when they come upon a very large hole?

5. What did Jeremy realize to be the simplest way of getting back a lost parent?

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