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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 183 - 225).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jana compliment Adriaan on that seems ridiculous to the narrator?
(a) How well he ordered from the restaurant.
(b) His accent.
(c) His tie.
(d) His manners.

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

3. Why does the former president tell the narrator he liked her at first?
(a) She seemed submissive.
(b) She seemed calm.
(c) She is very pretty.
(d) She is not truly from the West.

4. What does the narrator tell Eline about the woman she saw Anton with?
(a) The woman was much older than Anton.
(b) The woman looked like a prostitute.
(c) They seemed to like each other, the woman and Anton.
(d) The woman looked like a friend, nothing more.

5. What does the narrator claim a person will hear the longer he listens to an interpreter?
(a) Derision.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Nuance and variation.
(d) Better grammar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of food does Adriaan bring to dinner at Jana's?

2. Who is Adriaan supposed to meet for the first time soon in Chapter 4?

3. Who is the narrator shocked to see at the trial she begins working on in Chapter 7?

4. Who is Anton's wife?

5. Where does the narrator go that her mother said her parents took her to as a child in Chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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