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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 does the narrator do at Jana's exhibit in Chapter 10?
(a) Leaves very early.
(b) Goes off on her own to look at paintings in the gallery's permanent collection.
(c) Vomits.
(d) Cries.

2. What does the narrator say when Anton asks her if she bought anything in his shop?
(a) She did not.
(b) She did, and she spent more than she wanted to.
(c) She was going to buy something, but she had forgotten her credit card.
(d) The shop was closed on the day she went.

3. What does the narrator tell the former president her job is?
(a) To make the space between languages as small as possible.
(b) To be accurate.
(c) To lie low.
(d) To be objective.

4. What upsets the judges in Chapter 8?
(a) The lack of sunlight in the chambers.
(b) The way the former president falls asleep during his own trial.
(c) The rowdiness of the former president's supporters in the gallery.
(d) The way Amina is starting to falter in translating.

5. What does Eline say she and the narrator must do soon?
(a) Have dinner.
(b) Take Eline's children to the park.
(c) Have breakfast.
(d) Go to the bookstore together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word on the narrator's legal pad does the former president fixate on?

2. In Chapter 11, how does the narrator begin feeling about Adriaan?

3. What do Anton, Eline and the narrator drink during dinner?

4. What does the former president do as a signal to his own supporters?

5. What does Eline tell the narrator she is concerned about in world affairs?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator move out of Adriaan's apartment in Chapter 12?

3. What do the former president's supporters do in the courtroom in Chapter 8?

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

5. In Chapter 10, what enchants the narrator about the painting she fixates on at the gallery opening?

6. What does Eline tell the narrator is her relationship with Anton and his wife Miriam?

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

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

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

10. What is the narrator's impression of Anton when she first meets him?

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