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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the former president do as a signal to his own supporters?
(a) Holds his hands up to them.
(b) Sings the national anthem for them.
(c) Gives them the thumbs up.
(d) Gives them a Nazi salute.

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

3. What word on the narrator's legal pad does the former president fixate on?
(a) Accused.
(b) Perpetrator.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Brutal.

4. Which friends of Anton's does he tell a demeaning story about at dinner?
(a) Helen and Stephen.
(b) Lars and Lotte.
(c) Jennifer and Sven.
(d) Marco and Sally.

5. Who becomes the narrator's partner in the booth in Chapter 13?
(a) Helen.
(b) Bettina.
(c) Harold.
(d) Robert.

6. In Chapter 9, what does Bettina ask the narrator to do?
(a) Go on leave.
(b) Go to a meeting between the former president and his defense team.
(c) Go to the United Nations to translate there.
(d) Go to Singapore.

7. In Chapter 11, how does the narrator begin feeling about Adriaan?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Happy.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Angry and upset.

8. What do Anton, Eline and the narrator drink during dinner?
(a) Champagne.
(b) Absinthe.
(c) Wine.
(d) Vodka.

9. Who is the narrator shocked to see at the trial she begins working on in Chapter 7?
(a) Kees.
(b) Jana.
(c) Helen.
(d) Adriaan.

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

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

12. What does Eline do for a living?
(a) Writer.
(b) Art history professor.
(c) Singer.
(d) Translator.

13. In Chapter 10, what does the narrator barely believe Kees had the nerve to do earlier in the day?
(a) Demean her work in front of everyone at the Court.
(b) Kiss her.
(c) Ask her for a drink.
(d) Ask her to dance.

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

15. What unpleasant sensation does the narrator begin to get regarding the former president as the trial progresses?
(a) She knows him the best of anyone in the Court or in the city.
(b) He is about to die.
(c) He likes her romantically.
(d) He is plotting an escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes on maternity leave in Chapter 13?

2. What personal information does the narrator share with Eline in the end of Chapter 11?

3. Where do the translators sit during the trials at the Court?

4. What does the narrator do at Jana's exhibit in Chapter 10?

5. In Chapter 8, what does the first witness called say?

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