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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. In Chapter 9, what does Bettina ask the narrator to do?
2. In Chapter 9, how does the narrator feel when staying in Adriaan's apartment?
3. What does Kees tell the narrator about the former president's feelings about her?
4. What does the witness say she does when she sees the bodies at the school in Chapter 13?
5. Who becomes the narrator's partner in the booth in Chapter 13?
Short Essay Questions
1. What impression does the narrator form of how his colleagues regard Kees?
2. What is unusual about the food at the gallery opening in Chapter 10?
3. In Chapter 9, why is the narrator growing increasingly nervous about Adriaan?
4. In Chapter 10, what enchants the narrator about the painting she fixates on at the gallery opening?
5. How does the narrator feel when she sees Kees in the courtroom in Chapter 8?
6. What surprises the narrator about the way the former president behaves in Chapter 9?
7. Who does Jana introduce the narrator to in Chapter 10, and why?
8. In Chapter 9, why does the narrator come to understand the former president asks for her specifically?
9. In Chapter 10, what does Kees say about Adriaan that unsettles the narrator?
10. What is one area of Eline's life that the narrator finds herself envying?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does the narrator find herself drawn to the dunes at the coast of The Hague in the later parts of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Why and when does the narrator come to feel that the person she most understands is the former president who is on trial in The Hague, following Adriaan's departure to Lisbon? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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