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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. What does Bernard tell Jeremy they are standing near when they come upon a very large hole?
2. What is the name of the woman in the crowd who Bernard notes looks a little bit like June?
3. What deformity did Jenny have at birth?
4. In what way did Jeremy realize he had heard of Jenny's father, Bernard Tremaine?
5. How does Bernard refer to June's preoccupation with the spiritual world in Part Two?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Jeremy and Bernard share a cab to the airport, what do they talk about?
2. 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?
3. When Jeremy becomes part of a squabble with a father in the hotel, why does he feel it to be a drama played out for his behalf?
4. When Jeremy first meets Jenny at a convention, why is that he can't get to speak to her alone?
5. When Jeremy and Bernard begin to discuss things that June told Jeremy for her memoir, what is Bernard's initial reaction?
6. What does Jeremy imagine Bernard would be telling him about June's perceived presence in the bergerie?
7. When Jeremy and Jenny first speak to each other of their parents, what intrigues Jeremy?
8. In Part Three when Jeremy and Bernard are at the airport, how does Bernard answer Jeremy's question about the black dogs?
9. 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?
10. When Bernard calls Jeremy and Jenny to tell them the Berlin Wall is coming down, how do they react?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast June and Bernard's personalities and belief systems.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
When Jeremy intervenes in the beating of the boy at dinner, who is he really thinking of? Is the young woman a symbol of anyone? What about the father or the waitress?
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