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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's message to Adriaan at the end of Chapter 10 ask?
(a) Whether she should buy more alcohol for him or not.
(b) Asking how things stand with his marriage.
(c) Asking how he is feeling after being ill.
(d) Whether she should stay in the apartment or not.

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

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

4. What does the narrator decide to do with Adriaan's keys?
(a) Slip them under the mat.
(b) Put them in the mail.
(c) Keep them.
(d) Leave them right in the door.

5. Why does Jana say she has not been in touch with the narrator?
(a) She has been sick.
(b) She has been busy traveling.
(c) She has been busy with a new boyfriend.
(d) The exhibition has taken up all her time.

6. What does the narrator tell Eline when Eline asks if she enjoys working at the Court?
(a) She loves the work.
(b) She needs to decide soon whether or not to stay at the Court.
(c) The work is not without complication.
(d) She really dislikes the work.

7. What did Anton's attackers take from him?
(a) His diamond ring.
(b) His wallet, phone, and watch.
(c) His backpack.
(d) His coat.

8. Why does Kees tell the narrator it is useful for the defense team to have her there?
(a) It is good for them to have someone there who never seems to get too angry.
(b) It is good for them to gauge her reactions to the content of their conversations.
(c) It is good for them to have someone who can break the tension.
(d) It is good for them to have someone who can tell a good joke.

9. How does the detention center look different to the narrator in the daylight?
(a) As if it is made out of more expensive materials.
(b) More secure.
(c) Less sinister than at night.
(d) More architecturally solid.

10. What surprises the narrator about the witness in Chapter 13?
(a) How calm and assured she is.
(b) How fragile she seems.
(c) How old she is.
(d) How short she is.

11. How does Anton refer to himself that startles both Eline and the narrator?
(a) As a novice.
(b) As a dilettante.
(c) As a cripple.
(d) As a nobody.

12. Who is at Eline's house for dinner when the narrator arrives?
(a) Jana.
(b) Adriaan.
(c) Helen.
(d) Anton.

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

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

15. How is the food at the reception arranged in Chapter 10?
(a) In circles.
(b) In hiding places.
(c) In a standard buffet-style.
(d) Through frames.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eline say is like a father to her children?

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

3. In Chapter 9, what does Bettina ask the narrator to do?

4. What does Amina tell the narrator about Kees?

5. What does Kees tell the narrator about the former president's feelings about her?

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