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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Adriaan say he expects his trip to take?
(a) Two months.
(b) Three months.
(c) A week, or possibly a bit longer.
(d) Three weeks.

2. What milestone has Jana just reached?
(a) Having a first child.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Buying her own apartment.
(d) Joining a church.

3. Which colleague of the narrator's is pregnant?
(a) Helen.
(b) Jana.
(c) Bettina.
(d) Amina.

4. In the end of Chapter 2, who calls the narrator?
(a) Helen.
(b) Jana.
(c) Bettina.
(d) Amina.

5. What does Adriaan tell the narrator about Kees's personality?
(a) He is conniving.
(b) He is petty and frivolous.
(c) He is very kind-hearted.
(d) He is always angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what does the narrator say is never easy?

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

3. Where does the narrator work in Chapter 1?

4. What kind of work does the narrator do?

5. What does Adriaan's note to the narrator say that he leaves for her in the apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator find out that Adriaan is married?

2. What does Jana say happened outside her building the last time the narrator had visited during the dinner with Adriaan?

3. What is the main business in The Hague?

4. Why does Adriaan ask the narrator not to move to Jana's neighborhood?

5. What does Bettina ask the narrator to do in Chapter 5?

6. In Chapter 5, what is one reason the accused is angry, and what question does he ask the interpreter in French?

7. What does translation and interpretation require, according to the narrator?

8. According to the narrator, what does one hear the longer she listens to any one interpreter speaking?

9. What does Adriaan offer to do for his first meeting with Jana and the narrator?

10. In Chapter 5, what does the narrator worry that the taxi driver might think she is working as?

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