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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fourth Episode, 1966.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is written on the memorial that was built on the site of the executions?
(a) May they live on in our memory.
(b) We shall never forget.
(c) They fell for queen and fatherland.
(d) Rest in peace.

2. What is hanging on the wall of Cor Takes's basement?
(a) A World War II poster.
(b) A picture of his family.
(c) A map of Haarlem.
(d) A map of troop movements from the war.

3. While in a jail cell, a woman tells Anton a story about what?
(a) The Dutch resistance.
(b) Her first day at school.
(c) Being lost in front of her own house.
(d) Being arrested for murder.

4. Who says to Anton, "Pickles are just like crocodiles"?
(a) Mrs. Beumer.
(b) Van Liempt.
(c) Mr. Korteweg.
(d) Mr. Beumer.

5. At what point in the conversation with Cor Takes does Anton become emotional?
(a) When Cor Takes becomes angry.
(b) When Cor Takes tells him that Fake Ploeg was a murderer.
(c) When Cor Takes speaks about his girlfriend.
(d) When Cor Takes starts crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first moves the body of the man who was shot?

2. What is Fake Ploeg doing when Anton meets him in the Third Episode?

3. Who pointed out Cor Takes and Truus Coster to the soldiers?

4. What does the reader know that Anton cannot remember while he is talking to Cor Takes?

5. Mrs. Beumer tells Anton that who was killed on the night of the assault?

(see the answer key)

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