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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kees do to the narrator in Chapter 3 that makes her very uncomfortable?

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

3. What do interpreters always work against?

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

5. What is the nature of the Court, according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator think of Jana's new neighborhood?

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

6. How does the narrator first meet Adriaan?

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

8. What does Adriaan want the narrator to do while he is away, and how does the narrator react to this request?

9. How are the narrator and Jana different?

10. What trip does Adriaan tell the narrator he is taking in Chapter 7 that could have major consequences for their relationship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the narrator feel when her texts and calls to Adriaan are met with silence while he is in Lisbon? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does the narrator feel during her first several months living in The Hague? What is unusual about The Hague as a setting? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Does Adriaan offer enough of an explanation for his former silences to satisfy the narrator - and the reader - at the end of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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