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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Fake Ploeg tells Anton that he will never forget what?
(a) That time in the classroom.
(b) That Anton betrayed him.
(c) The night of the assault.
(d) That Anton found him.

3. After attending a funeral in the Fourth Episode, where does Anton go?
(a) On a train ride.
(b) To a picnic.
(c) To Haarlem.
(d) To a bar.

4. Why did Cor Takes escape on the night of the assault?
(a) Because he was friends with the policeman.
(b) Because he was getting help for Truus Coster.
(c) Because Truus Coster urged him to leave.
(d) Because he stole someone's car.

5. Why did Fake Ploeg never finish high school?
(a) He had no interest in academics.
(b) He had to support his mother and sisters.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He failed his classes.

6. Why does Anton's uncle not attend his wedding?
(a) He has become estranged from Anton.
(b) He died in an auto accident.
(c) He died in the war.
(d) He does not approve of Anton's wife.

7. What does Anton specialize in?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Pediatrics.
(c) Radiology.
(d) Anesthesia.

8. What does Anton publish in a student magazine?
(a) Poems about nature.
(b) Political poems.
(c) Political essays.
(d) His dissertation.

9. What kind of student is Anton?
(a) Sloppy.
(b) Failing.
(c) Superior.
(d) Fair-to-middling.

10. In the Third Episode, where is Fake Ploeg working?
(a) A household appliance store.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A cleaning service.
(d) A fine restaurant.

11. Cor Takes tells Anton that the Steenwijk family should have done what with Fake Ploeg's body?
(a) Thrown it into the river.
(b) Taken it into their house.
(c) Made sure he was dead.
(d) Handed it over to the police.

12. What does Cor Takes want to know from Anton?
(a) What Truus Coster talked about the night of the assault.
(b) How long his parents lived.
(c) Where the Resistance hostages were shot.
(d) Why the soldiers burnt down his house.

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

14. What is Fake Ploeg holding when Anton meets him in the Third Episode?
(a) A gun.
(b) A rock.
(c) A Molotov cocktail.
(d) A sign.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Cor Takes's mother wanted him to do the night of the assault?

2. When Anton meets Fake Ploeg as an adult, what does Fake look like?

3. On the second night of the protest against the Communist Party, why does Anton decide not to stay at his aunt and uncle's?

4. What color is Saskia's hair?

5. Where does Anton meet Cor Takes?

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