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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 is the name of Jana's new exhibit?
(a) Slow Food.
(b) Coming Home.
(c) Speeches.
(d) Finding the Way.

2. What does Kees do to the narrator in Chapter 3 that makes her very uncomfortable?
(a) Puts his hand around her waist and plays with her pantyhose through her dress.
(b) Insists they take a taxi together.
(c) Trips her.
(d) Kisses her.

3. What does Jana implore the narrator to do at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Eat more.
(b) Learn more languages.
(c) Be careful on her way to the tram.
(d) Sleep more.

4. What is unusual about the narrator among her fellow interpreters?
(a) She is full of humor.
(b) She is reticent.
(c) She is gregarious.
(d) She is a woman.

5. What language does the narrator try to focus on deciphering during her commute to work?
(a) Spanish.
(b) English.
(c) Dutch.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator's closest friend in her new city?

2. Which friends of Anton's does he tell a demeaning story about at dinner?

3. Who did Adriaan's house once belong to?

4. What happens the first time the narrator speaks to translate at the trial of the former president?

5. What does the narrator have to translate for the accused in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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