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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 183 - 225).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anton remember most vividly about his mugging?
(a) The way the knife felt when it stabbed him.
(b) Very little.
(c) The woman he was with at the time.
(d) The faces of the attackers.

2. Who is Adriaan supposed to meet for the first time soon in Chapter 4?
(a) Helen.
(b) Jana.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) Bettina.

3. What does the narrator think is the purpose of the defense lawyers touching and talking with the accused?
(a) To pacify the accused.
(b) To humanize the accused.
(c) To make the judges angry.
(d) To make the people in the gallery angry.

4. Who goes on maternity leave in Chapter 13?
(a) Eline.
(b) Helen.
(c) Amina.
(d) Bettina.

5. In the end of Chapter 7, whose work will the narrator be taking over?
(a) Helen's.
(b) Amina's.
(c) Bettina's.
(d) Robert's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator feel about stability and certainty?

2. What unpleasant sensation does the narrator begin to get regarding the former president as the trial progresses?

3. In Chapter 1, what does the narrator say is never easy?

4. In Chapter 8, what does the first witness called say?

5. What feature of her apartment does the narrator use often?

(see the answer key)

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