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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. Jeremy believes the man in the crowd holding a Communist flag is of a certain nationality. What is it?

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

3. What does Jenny tell Jeremy when he asks why she mentioned black dogs earlier?

4. When Jeremy, in Part Two, tells Bernard what June spoke about in a personal way about the two of them, how does Bernard react?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jeremy and Jenny first speak to each other of their parents, what intrigues Jeremy?

2. How does the taxi driver's intervention in Bernard's speech during the cab ride affect him?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

When a tough girl in leather saves Bernard from nearly being killed by a gang of boys in Berlin, who did that girl represent? Why? Does Bernard believe in this symbol?

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