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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Steenwijk family doing when they hear shots?
(a) Eating dinner.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Listening to the radio.
(d) Playing a game.

2. When does Van Liempt inquire about the fate of Anton's parents?
(a) The day after he picks up Anton.
(b) When Anton is an adult.
(c) In 1952.
(d) After the liberation.

3. Who takes Anton home at the end of the First Episode?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His grandparents.
(c) His father.
(d) Peter.

4. Of the executed Resistance members remembered by the monument, who was the only one born in the previous century?
(a) Anton's mother.
(b) Takes.
(c) Ploeg.
(d) Mr. Steenwijk.

5. Why does Peter want to move the body of the man who was shot?
(a) He wants to steal money from the man.
(b) He is afraid the police will suspect them.
(c) He wants to give the man medical attention.
(d) He is afraid that the police will suspect their neighbors.

6. Who recognizes Anton when he returns to his old neighborhood in the Second Episode?
(a) Karin Korteweg.
(b) Mrs. Beumer.
(c) Mr. Beumer.
(d) Mr. Korteweg.

7. Where does a soldier put Anton after taking him from his house in the First Episode?
(a) A plane.
(b) A neighbor's house.
(c) A car.
(d) A bicycle.

8. Who throws the keys of the Steenwijk house into the darkness?
(a) Peter.
(b) Anton.
(c) Mrs. Steenwijk.
(d) The soldiers.

9. When Anton visits Gerrit Jan's house in the Second Episode, what war are they discussing?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Civil War.

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

11. What do the soldiers do to Anton's childhood house?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Bomb it.
(c) Sell it.
(d) Vandalize it.

12. How is Anton attacked on the way to Amsterdam in the First Episode?
(a) By fire.
(b) By ambush.
(c) By plane.
(d) By machine guns.

13. What is Anton's childhood home next to?
(a) A canal.
(b) A tulip field.
(c) An ocean.
(d) A church.

14. What does Van Liempt discover about the fate of Anton's parents?
(a) They were sent to a death camp.
(b) They died in prison.
(c) They were sent to Germany.
(d) They were shot.

15. Why does Mrs. Beumer believe that Anton's mother was killed?
(a) Because she refused to leave the house.
(b) Because she was Jewish.
(c) Because she was Peter's mother.
(d) Because she attacked a soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anton know that the assault was never brought to trial?

2. Anton's name is shared by whom?

3. Who invites Anton inside for coffee in the Second Episode?

4. What did Mr. Beumer used to read to Anton?

5. In which city does "The Assault" begin?

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