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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 Kees tell the narrator about the former president's feelings about her?
(a) She makes the former president sad.
(b) She is soothing to the former president.
(c) She makes the former president angry.
(d) The former president is suspicious of her.

2. What does the witness say she does when she sees the bodies at the school in Chapter 13?
(a) Covers them.
(b) Says a prayer over them.
(c) Counts them.
(d) Takes pictures of them.

3. How does Kees's audacity make the narrator feel?
(a) Deadened and amazed.
(b) Aroused.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sad.

4. What is one thing the accused in the trial the narrator is about to start translating for has been accused of?
(a) Burning down his own seat of government.
(b) Killing his own generals.
(c) Running concentration camps.
(d) Ethnic cleansing.

5. What institution is Jana's opening at in Chapter 10?
(a) The Vandenberg.
(b) The Brandenburg.
(c) The National Museum.
(d) The Mauritshuis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which trial is Amina currently working on in Chapter 3?

2. What language does the narrator try to focus on deciphering during her commute to work?

3. In Chapter 2, what does Jana call the narrator to ask?

4. Why is the narrator resentful of Jana in Chapter 6?

5. What word on the narrator's legal pad does the former president fixate on?

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