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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fourth Episode, 1966.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Anton surprised when Mrs. Beumer tells him about the monument?
(a) Because his uncle had not told him about it.
(b) Because Mrs. Beumer is senile.
(c) Because he had forgotten that his uncle told him about it.
(d) Because he thought no one else knew about it.

2. Cor Takes tells Anton that Truus Coster was killed when?
(a) The day after the assault.
(b) The night of the assault.
(c) A week after the Liberation.
(d) Three weeks before the Liberation.

3. What surprises Cor Takes about the events on the night of the assault?
(a) That Anton's parents were given a trial.
(b) That the soldiers burnt Anton's house.
(c) That Fake Ploeg died instantaneously.
(d) That the Kortewegs dragged the body in front of the Steenwijks' house.

4. Cor Takes tells Anton that after shooting Fake Ploeg, he hid with Truus Coster where?
(a) In the bushes.
(b) In a garbage can.
(c) In the Steenwijk's basement.
(d) Under a tree.

5. Where does Anton take his wife and daughter after the funeral?
(a) To England.
(b) To his childhood home.
(c) To the beach.
(d) To the memorial in Haarlem.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anton respond to world politics?

2. By the Second Episode, what has happened to Mr. Beumer?

3. Where does Anton meet Fake Ploeg in the Third Episode?

4. What happened to Mrs. Ploeg after the war?

5. What is Cor Takes biggest regret concerning the night of the assault?

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