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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 the narrator tell Eline when Eline asks if she enjoys working at the Court?

2. Who becomes the narrator's partner in the booth in Chapter 13?

3. What happens the first time the narrator speaks to translate at the trial of the former president?

4. How does Kees's audacity make the narrator feel?

5. Who does Eline say is like a father to her children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Eline tell the narrator is her relationship with Anton and his wife Miriam?

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

6. In Chapter 10, what does Kees say about Adriaan that unsettles the narrator?

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

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

9. Who does Jana introduce the narrator to in Chapter 10, and why?

10. What does the narrator think might have changed in her first meeting with Kees if she had known he was a lawyer at the court?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the tone and language Kitamura establishes through the narrator's voice in the novel, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the most difficult aspects of translating for the narrator? How does the narrator deal with the stresses of translating? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does the narrator become so fixated on Anton's assault in Jana's neighborhood? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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