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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 did the soldiers do in the witness's house after killing her family?
(a) Stole the family's paintings.
(b) Ate the family's food.
(c) Burned the family's banking papers.
(d) Killed the family's pets.

2. What is startling about Anton's appearance in Chapter 12?
(a) His hair is a very stark bleached color.
(b) He is badly bruised from his mugging.
(c) His head is completely shaved.
(d) He is in a wheelchair, which the narrator did not expect.

3. What does the narrator think when she sees a photo of Adriaan's wife for the first time?
(a) She looks exactly like a childhood friend of the narrator's.
(b) She is very average-looking.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She is cruel-looking.

4. What does Eline say about her own ex-husband?
(a) He has never been able to hold a job.
(b) He is worse than useless.
(c) She is still not over the pain of losing him.
(d) He is a wonderful father.

5. What is unusual about Anton's cane?
(a) It is bright purple.
(b) It is old-fashioned and ornate.
(c) It glows.
(d) It is very cheap-looking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adriaan ask the narrator to do while he is gone?

2. What does Anton remember most vividly about his mugging?

3. What does the witness say she does when she sees the bodies at the school in Chapter 13?

4. Why does the former president tell the narrator he liked her at first?

5. What does the narrator think of her own apartment?

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