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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 Amina tell the narrator about Kees?

2. How many children does Eline have?

3. What does the narrator's message to Adriaan at the end of Chapter 10 ask?

4. What personal information does the narrator share with Eline in the end of Chapter 11?

5. What upsets the judges in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 9, why is the narrator growing increasingly nervous about Adriaan?

3. In Chapter 10, what does Jana tell the narrator about how she first met Eline?

4. In Chapter 11, how does the narrator begin to view the book she bought for Adriaan earlier?

5. In Chapter 7, what new assignment does the narrator get?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 10, what does Kees say about Adriaan that unsettles the narrator?

10. What does the narrator think might have changed in her first meeting with Kees if she had known he was a lawyer at the court?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Kitamura describe the narrator's sense of home and belonging in the beginning of the novel? 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 Kees's presence and interactions with her, both socially and at work, so unnerving? 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 Adriaan sets off for his trip to Lisbon to try to settle things between him and Gaby, his wife? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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