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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which building near Anton's apartment serves as headquarters for the Communist Party?
(a) The dentist's office.
(b) The bakery.
(c) The Ortskommandantur.
(d) Felix Meritis.

2. What does Fake Ploeg break in Anton's apartment?
(a) A piano.
(b) A glass.
(c) A mirror.
(d) A window.

3. Where does Anton meet Fake Ploeg in the Third Episode?
(a) At his uncle's.
(b) At the Communist Party headquarters.
(c) At work.
(d) Outside his door.

4. What enters Budapest during the Third Episode?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) Russian tanks.
(c) Anton's parents.
(d) The Third Reich.

5. How does Anton react to the tumult outside his door in the Third Episode?
(a) With revenge.
(b) With fear.
(c) With anger.
(d) With indifference.

6. Anton realizes that he married Saskia because of what?
(a) Her resemblance to Truus Coster.
(b) Her father's connection to the Resistance.
(c) Her helping him forget the assault.
(d) Her beauty.

7. What did Saskia's father do during the war?
(a) Worked as an ambulance driver.
(b) Hid Jews in the attic.
(c) Spied for the Nazi's.
(d) Belonged to a Resistance organization.

8. Which instrument does Anton play?
(a) Piano.
(b) Trombone.
(c) Violin.
(d) Bagpipes.

9. In which year does the Third Episode take place?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1945.

10. Who does Fake Ploeg consider responsible for the death of Anton's parents?
(a) The English.
(b) His father.
(c) The Resistance fighters.
(d) Hitler.

11. What happened to Mrs. Ploeg after the war?
(a) She was arrested.
(b) She committed suicide.
(c) She moved to America.
(d) She remarried.

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

13. Cor Takes tells Anton that Fake Ploeg shot whom?
(a) Cor Takes's brother.
(b) Truus Coster.
(c) Truus Coster's sister.
(d) Cor Takes.

14. How does Anton respond to Fake Ploeg's anger at the end of the Third Episode?
(a) With anger.
(b) With bitterness.
(c) With sympathy.
(d) With callousness.

15. How does Fake Ploeg threaten Anton in the Third Episode?
(a) With the police.
(b) With a gun.
(c) With a rock.
(d) With blackmail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cor Takes keep a picture of Truus Coster?

2. What part of the newspaper does Anton spend the most time on?

3. What item of Truus Coster's does Cor Takes keep in a drawer in his basement?

4. What does Anton suffer from in the Third Episode?

5. Why did Fake Ploeg never finish high school?

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