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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. How does Kees's audacity make the narrator feel?
2. What does Jana say she thinks of Adriaan?
3. Who does Jana introduce the narrator to in Chapter 10?
4. What is one thing the accused in the trial the narrator is about to start translating for has been accused of?
5. Who is the narrator shocked to see at the trial she begins working on in Chapter 7?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator feel when she sees Kees in the courtroom in Chapter 8?
2. In Chapter 10, what does Jana tell the narrator about how she first met Eline?
3. In Chapter 11, how does the narrator begin to view the book she bought for Adriaan earlier?
4. In Chapter 10, what enchants the narrator about the painting she fixates on at the gallery opening?
5. Why does the narrator move out of Adriaan's apartment in Chapter 12?
6. What surprises the narrator about the way the former president behaves in Chapter 9?
7. What does Robert tell the narrator about how she should think about the trials she works on?
8. What story does Anton tell that reflects somewhat poorly on both him and the story's subjects?
9. What do the former president's supporters do in the courtroom in Chapter 8?
10. In Chapter 10, what does Kees say about Adriaan that unsettles the narrator?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does seeing Anton with a woman who he is obviously having an affair with seem to affect the narrator's feelings about her own tenuous relationship with Adriaan? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
Why does the narrator find herself feeling so overtly jealous during her dinner with Adriaan and Jana, when Adriaan and Jana meet for the first time? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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