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

2. 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.

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

4. What does Kees tell the narrator in Chapter 10 that upsets her greatly?
(a) Adriaan is back in The Hague.
(b) Adriaan has been trying to get back together with Gaby.
(c) Adriaan and Kees once had a romantic relationship.
(d) Adriaan is actually in quite a precarious financial situation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator arrange to meet at a cafe in Chapter 11?

2. What does the narrator think is the purpose of the defense lawyers touching and talking with the accused?

3. What does Jana say she thinks of Adriaan?

4. Why does Kees tell the narrator it is useful for the defense team to have her there?

5. What does the narrator's message to Adriaan at the end of Chapter 10 ask?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator think might have changed in her first meeting with Kees if she had known he was a lawyer at the court?

2. What is one global issue Eline tells the narrator she is particularly worried about?

3. What story does Anton tell that reflects somewhat poorly on both him and the story's subjects?

4. What is unusual about the food at the gallery opening in Chapter 10?

5. In Chapter 10, what does Kees say about Adriaan that unsettles the narrator?

6. What surprises the narrator about the way the former president behaves in Chapter 9?

7. In Chapter 11, how does the narrator begin to view the book she bought for Adriaan earlier?

8. In Chapter 10, what does Jana tell the narrator about how she first met Eline?

9. In Chapter 9, what startles the narrator at work?

10. What does Amina tell the narrator is Kees's reputation?

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