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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. At the cultural convention where Jeremy first met Jenny, why were the men "in a race" to get to Jenny first?

3. What does Jeremy discover on the switchboard cover in the bergerie?

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

5. Why was Jeremy unable to eat his breakfast at the convention where he met Jenny?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jeremy and Jenny visit a concentration camp near Lublin, what does Jenny finally say to him after an hour of silence?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Bernard tells Jeremy as they are walking toward the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin that he thought certain things about June for the first six months after she died. What does he tell Jeremy?

6. When Bernard recalls the story in Part Two of him and June standing on the train platform and he asks June to give him a dragonfly, how does June know that Bernard wants to kill it?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. How does it come to be that all of the hotel patrons end up eating dinner at the same time?

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

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

Explain whether this novel is politically or religiously skewed. Has the author made his feelings on the subjects known by the end of the story? How?

Essay Topic 3

As early as the Preface of the book, Jeremy states that the simplest way of restoring a lost parent is to become a parent yourself. What do you think he meant by this statement? How is it true or false? How does this statement reflect Jeremy's relationship with Sally?

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