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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. How does the detention center look different to the narrator in the daylight?
(a) Less sinister than at night.
(b) As if it is made out of more expensive materials.
(c) More architecturally solid.
(d) More secure.

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

3. What does the narrator once again remember about interpretation while she is working with the former president and his defense team?
(a) It can be profoundly disorienting.
(b) It is nothing she ever pictured herself doing.
(c) It can lead to some funny moments.
(d) It can be thrilling.

4. What does the witness say she does when she sees the bodies at the school in Chapter 13?
(a) Says a prayer over them.
(b) Covers them.
(c) Takes pictures of them.
(d) Counts them.

5. What does the narrator tell the former president her job is?
(a) To lie low.
(b) To be objective.
(c) To be accurate.
(d) To make the space between languages as small as possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What painting enchants the narrator in Chapter 10?

2. What does the narrator decide to do with Adriaan's keys?

3. How is the food at the reception arranged in Chapter 10?

4. Which friends of Anton's does he tell a demeaning story about at dinner?

5. What does Kees tell the narrator about the former president's feelings about her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises the narrator about the way the former president behaves in Chapter 9?

2. In Chapter 9, why does the narrator come to understand the former president asks for her specifically?

3. What story does Anton tell that reflects somewhat poorly on both him and the story's subjects?

4. How does the narrator feel when she sees Kees in the courtroom in Chapter 8?

5. What is one area of Eline's life that the narrator finds herself envying?

6. In Chapter 7, what new assignment does the narrator get?

7. What is the narrator's impression of Anton when she first meets him?

8. What is unusual about the food at the gallery opening in Chapter 10?

9. Why does the narrator move out of Adriaan's apartment in Chapter 12?

10. In Chapter 9, what startles the narrator at work?

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