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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 once again remember about interpretation while she is working with the former president and his defense team?
(a) It is nothing she ever pictured herself doing.
(b) It can lead to some funny moments.
(c) It can be profoundly disorienting.
(d) It can be thrilling.

2. What question does Kees ask the narrator in Chapter 9 that unsettles her?
(a) Whether she sees much of Adriaan.
(b) Whether she lives in the city or not.
(c) Whether she wants to have a drink.
(d) Whether she is single.

3. What is the name of Jana's new exhibit?
(a) Finding the Way.
(b) Speeches.
(c) Coming Home.
(d) Slow Food.

4. What does the narrator decide to do with Adriaan's keys?
(a) Leave them right in the door.
(b) Slip them under the mat.
(c) Keep them.
(d) Put them in the mail.

5. 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) The shop was closed on the day she went.
(d) She was going to buy something, but she had forgotten her credit card.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a distinguishing, and, to the narrator, ridiculous-looking part of Kees's appearance?

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

3. Who does Jana introduce the narrator to in Chapter 10?

4. What surprises the narrator about the witness in Chapter 13?

5. Who is the artist of the painting that the narrator is transfixed by in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Jana introduce the narrator to in Chapter 10, and why?

2. How does the narrator feel when she sees Kees in the courtroom in Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 9, why does the narrator come to understand the former president asks for her specifically?

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

5. How does Adriaan respond to the narrator's questions about his trip to Lisbon?

6. What does Robert tell the narrator about how she should think about the trials she works on?

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

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

9. What impression does the narrator form of how his colleagues regard Kees?

10. What is one area of Eline's life that the narrator finds herself envying?

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