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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 137 - 182).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's message to Adriaan at the end of Chapter 10 ask?
(a) Whether she should buy more alcohol for him or not.
(b) Asking how things stand with his marriage.
(c) Asking how he is feeling after being ill.
(d) Whether she should stay in the apartment or not.

2. What does the narrator buy in Chapter 7?
(a) A large, expensive book that is the history of The Hague.
(b) A new winter coat.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A new phone.

3. In Chapter 2, what does Jana call the narrator to ask?
(a) If she has made it home safely.
(b) If she is going to travel to the United States any time soon.
(c) If she can loan Jana money.
(d) If she can bring biscuits later.

4. What does the narrator say an interpreter might sound like to a layperson at first?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Cold and without inflection.
(c) Untrustworthy.
(d) Unsure.

5. What does Eline say she and the narrator must do soon?
(a) Have breakfast.
(b) Take Eline's children to the park.
(c) Go to the bookstore together.
(d) Have dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kees tell the narrator in Chapter 10 that upsets her greatly?

2. In Chapter 9, how does the narrator feel when staying in Adriaan's apartment?

3. In Chapter 8, what does the first witness called say?

4. What does Jana say is the name of the person who was injured in Chapter 6?

5. How did Jana react when the narrator first told her about Adriaan?

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