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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 44).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nature of the Court, according to the narrator?
(a) It is a place rife with politics.
(b) It is a place of high theatrics.
(c) It is a very solemn place.
(d) It is a place that is always physically dark.

2. What is the main reason the narrator wants to stay in The Hague?
(a) The great food.
(b) Jana.
(c) Her job at the Court.
(d) Adriaan.

3. Who has just passed away in the narrator's family?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her uncle.

4. What does the narrator think when she sees a photo of Adriaan's wife for the first time?
(a) She looks exactly like a childhood friend of the narrator's.
(b) She is very average-looking.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She is cruel-looking.

5. Who is Adriaan's wife?
(a) Bettina.
(b) Jana.
(c) Gaby.
(d) Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the narrator among her fellow interpreters?

2. What does the narrator think many of the Court's defendants share?

3. What is the foundation for any kind of interpreting work, according to the narrator?

4. What does the narrator claim a person will hear the longer he listens to an interpreter?

5. What does Adriaan tell the narrator about Kees's personality?

(see the answer key)

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