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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Jeremy stop for a beer while walking through St. Maurice?
(a) In a bar in the next town over.
(b) The hotel where June and Bernard honeymooned.
(c) At a farm, La Prunarede.
(d) In the woods.

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

4. 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?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Communism.
(c) Peace.
(d) Down.

5. Where did Jeremy and Jenny first meet?
(a) In Poland.
(b) In Brussels.
(c) In England.
(d) In France.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jeremy speaks to the father eating dinner in the hotel, what grammatical error does he make?

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

3. What feeling does Jeremy get when he enters the family chalet?

4. Bernard quotes some lines attributed to Isaiah Berlin to Jeremy. What are they about?

5. What is the name of the woman in the crowd who Bernard notes looks a little bit like June?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What does Jeremy imagine Bernard would be telling him about June's perceived presence in the bergerie?

5. 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?

6. In Part Three when Jeremy and Bernard are at the airport, how does Bernard answer Jeremy's question about the black dogs?

7. When Jeremy is working outside the bergerie the day after he arrives, he is pruning peach trees. What do Bernard and June say to one another in his imagination?

8. When Jeremy and Bernard begin to discuss things that June told Jeremy for her memoir, what is Bernard's initial reaction?

9. 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?

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?

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