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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. Who bought the expensive coffee and cappuccino machine in Adriaan's apartment?
(a) Adriaan.
(b) Gaby.
(c) Adriaan's children.
(d) The housekeeper.

2. What does Jana say she always wanted in her kitchen?
(a) A microwave.
(b) Two ovens.
(c) A wine rack.
(d) An eating counter.

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

4. What does Adriaan ask the narrator to do while he is gone?
(a) Take her own trip to New York City.
(b) Not to talk to the newspapers.
(c) Live in his apartment.
(d) Cook good meals for herself.

5. When does the narrator have to come in to work in Chapter 5 that is unusual?
(a) The middle of the day.
(b) Late morning.
(c) The middle of the night.
(d) Late afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do interpreters always work against?

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

3. In Chapter 2, what does Jana call the narrator to ask?

4. Who often gathers outside the Court?

5. How does the narrator often get to work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do many of the defendants at the International Criminal Court share, according to the narrator?

2. Why is the narrator unsettled when she arrives at Jana's for her dinner with Jana and Adriaan?

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

4. Why does Kees make the narrator uncomfortable in Chapter 3?

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

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

7. Who regularly protests outside the criminal court's buildings?

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

9. How does the narrator first meet Adriaan?

10. What is the main business in The Hague?

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