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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. What does Kees tell the narrator in Chapter 10 that upsets her greatly?
(a) Adriaan is actually in quite a precarious financial situation.
(b) Adriaan has been trying to get back together with Gaby.
(c) Adriaan and Kees once had a romantic relationship.
(d) Adriaan is back in The Hague.

2. Who does Eline say is like a father to her children?
(a) Her own grandfather.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her own father.
(d) Her uncle.

3. Where do the translators sit during the trials at the Court?
(a) The first floor.
(b) The basement.
(c) Behind the judges' benches.
(d) The booth on the mezzanine.

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

5. What is one thing the accused in the trial the narrator is about to start translating for has been accused of?
(a) Ethnic cleansing.
(b) Running concentration camps.
(c) Burning down his own seat of government.
(d) Killing his own generals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Anton's wife?

2. In Chapter 11, how does the narrator begin feeling about Adriaan?

3. What is startling about Anton's appearance in Chapter 12?

4. Who is at Eline's house for dinner when the narrator arrives?

5. In Chapter 10, what does the narrator barely believe Kees had the nerve to do earlier in the day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Amina tell the narrator is Kees's reputation?

2. In Chapter 10, what does Jana tell the narrator about how she first met Eline?

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

4. In Chapter 9, why is the narrator growing increasingly nervous about Adriaan?

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

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

7. What impression does the narrator form of how his colleagues regard Kees?

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

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

10. What is one global issue Eline tells the narrator she is particularly worried about?

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