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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. What startles Jana and the narrator in Chapter 1 as they eat dinner?
(a) Loud music from above.
(b) A bird squawking.
(c) Sirens from outside.
(d) A knock at the door.

2. Who has just passed away in the narrator's family?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

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

4. What is the cause of the delay in the narrator's work in Chapter 5?
(a) The accused had escaped.
(b) The accused had refused to leave the airplane.
(c) The accused had beaten a guard in a failed escape attempt.
(d) The accused had died.

5. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator sometimes feel in Adriaan's apartment?
(a) Angry.
(b) Sick.
(c) Awkward.
(d) As if Adriaan does not want her there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jana say the man who was injured in the crime does for a living in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 5, what unusual assignment is the narrator given?

3. What does Jana compliment Adriaan on that seems ridiculous to the narrator?

4. What does the narrator think many of the Court's defendants share?

5. What does Kees do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is the accused jihadist late in arriving at the detention center?

4. Why is it a significant step for Jana to own her own apartment?

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

6. What happens when the narrator goes to dinner at Jana's in Chapter 1 that jolts them both?

7. What does the narrator buy at the antique bookshop in Chapter 7?

8. What is a major reason the narrator wants to stay in The Hague?

9. How are the narrator and Jana different?

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

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