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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 go towards a man with a Communist flag who is holding up traffic.
(b) To chat with the American soldiers.
(c) To hurry towards the cafe on his own.
(d) To make a speech about Communism's fall to small crowd.

2. What does Jeremy do with the father who had been eating dinner with his family?
(a) He has a pleasant conversation about the dolmen with him.
(b) He punches and kicks him.
(c) He only stares at him.
(d) He gives him a lecture about children.

3. Who holds the little boy who fell to the floor?
(a) Mme. Auriac.
(b) The cook.
(c) The waitress.
(d) The woman from Paris.

4. When a group of teenagers surround Bernard, what does he tell them?
(a) To take pity on him.
(b) To march with the crowd.
(c) To explain their tatoos.
(d) To take off and leave.

5. In Part Two, Bernard and Jeremy see a deserted watchtower over sand that conceal land mines. What do they see there?
(a) Rats.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Nothing but memories.
(d) A child running.

6. When Jeremy tries to get some words in edgewise during the conversation he is overhearing, what do the voices do?
(a) They stop completely.
(b) They are silent for a few moments.
(c) There is violent yelling.
(d) They completely ignore him.

7. Why was Jeremy hesitant to visit Majdanek?
(a) He did not have the time.
(b) He did not understand why anyone would go there.
(c) He had been to Belsen once and that was enough for him.
(d) He was reluctant to spend the money.

8. In Part Two, what news does Bernard have when he calls Jeremy and Jenny at home?
(a) The Berlin Wall is coming down.
(b) He was getting remarried soon.
(c) He is leaving for a vacation in Germany.
(d) He is very ill and may be dying.

9. Jeremy hears a running conversation in his head while in the bergerie, alone. Who is talking in his head?
(a) June and Bernard.
(b) June and Jenny.
(c) Sally and Jean.
(d) Jenny and he.

10. At the cultural convention where Jeremy first met Jenny, why were the men "in a race" to get to Jenny first?
(a) She was beautiful, the only woman there, and very distant towards them.
(b) She was pretty, extremely fun to be with, and outgoing.
(c) She was the prettiest woman out of the five other women there.
(d) She flirted with all of the men there.

11. When Jeremy, in Part Two, tells Bernard what June spoke about in a personal way about the two of them, how does Bernard react?
(a) He turns on his heel and leaves Jeremy without a word.
(b) He is angry and says she got an important detail wrong.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He laughs and says it was just like her to say that.

12. What does June tell Bernard shortly after they are married and Bernard kills an insect?
(a) She now hates him.
(b) That he is a brilliant man of science.
(c) She wants an annulment.
(d) That she is pregnant.

13. How did Jenny astound Jeremy within the second week of meeting him at the convention?
(a) She asked him to go with her to Lublin.
(b) She spit into his face for no reason.
(c) She kissed him in front of all the men "in the race".
(d) She told him she wanted to marry him one day.

14. About how many people have gathered to watch the Berlin Wall fall in Part Two?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 800.

15. What symbol do some of the teenage boys who harass Bernard have on their selves?
(a) Peace signs.
(b) Swastikas.
(c) Sickle and hammers.
(d) Skull and crossbones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jenny want to go while at the convention?

2. When Bernard and Jeremy are at the Berlin Wall, why are some of the crowd watching and listening to them both?

3. Upon Jeremy's return to the hotel after his walk to the dolmen, what does he overhear in the kitchen?

4. In Part Two, what does Bernard say he misses most about June?

5. What were Bernard's feelings about June's commitment to the Communist Party after the incident with the insect in Part Two?

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