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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 angry.
(b) The former president is suspicious of her.
(c) She is soothing to the former president.
(d) She makes the former president sad.

2. What does the narrator think many of the Court's defendants share?
(a) Good physical looks.
(b) Musical talent.
(c) A kind of magnetism or charisma.
(d) Anger.

3. What happens the first time the narrator speaks to translate at the trial of the former president?
(a) She vomits.
(b) Her voice trails off.
(c) Her voice is too scratchy to be heard.
(d) Her voice wobbles.

4. Who bought the expensive coffee and cappuccino machine in Adriaan's apartment?
(a) Adriaan's children.
(b) Gaby.
(c) The housekeeper.
(d) Adriaan.

5. In Chapter 5, what unusual assignment is the narrator given?
(a) To translate for a famous lawyer.
(b) To clean the bathrooms.
(c) To travel on a plane to translate in transit for a person who is accused.
(d) To come to the detention center in the middle of the night to interpret for a new person accused of crimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say an interpreter might sound like to a layperson at first?

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

3. What does the president begin doing to the narrator in Chapter 13?

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

5. What is the main reason the narrator wants to stay in The Hague?

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