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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Fake Ploeg holding when Anton meets him in the Third Episode?
(a) A gun.
(b) A rock.
(c) A Molotov cocktail.
(d) A sign.

2. What does Cor Takes want to know from Anton?
(a) Where the Resistance hostages were shot.
(b) Why the soldiers burnt down his house.
(c) How long his parents lived.
(d) What Truus Coster talked about the night of the assault.

3. What does Fake Ploeg break in Anton's apartment?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A glass.
(c) A window.
(d) A piano.

4. What part of the newspaper does Anton spend the most time on?
(a) Classifieds.
(b) The crossword puzzle.
(c) The obituaries.
(d) Foreign news.

5. Anton's uncle is a party leader for which political party?
(a) Communists.
(b) Social Democrats.
(c) Liberals.
(d) Fascists.

6. Why did Fake Ploeg never finish high school?
(a) He had to support his mother and sisters.
(b) He failed his classes.
(c) He had no interest in academics.
(d) He was arrested.

7. How does Anton respond to Fake Ploeg's anger at the end of the Third Episode?
(a) With anger.
(b) With sympathy.
(c) With bitterness.
(d) With callousness.

8. When Anton meets Fake Ploeg in the Third Episode, where does he invite him?
(a) To his uncle's house.
(b) To his office.
(c) To a pub.
(d) To his apartment.

9. What does Anton suffer from in the Third Episode?
(a) Arthritis.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Fits of anger.
(d) Migraines.

10. To what does Anton attribute Fake Ploeg's lies concerning his father?
(a) Stupidity.
(b) Hate.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Love.

11. What does Fake Ploeg consider his father to be?
(a) The next ruler of Holland.
(b) A coward.
(c) A hero.
(d) A liar.

12. What is the name of Anton's first daughter?
(a) Saskia.
(b) Anita.
(c) Truus.
(d) Sandra.

13. How does Anton react to the tumult outside his door in the Third Episode?
(a) With revenge.
(b) With indifference.
(c) With fear.
(d) With anger.

14. What had Cor Takes's mother wanted him to do the night of the assault?
(a) Kill Fake Ploeg.
(b) Betray Truus Coster.
(c) Turn himself in.
(d) Stay home.

15. Cor Takes tells Anton that Truus Coster was killed when?
(a) The night of the assault.
(b) The day after the assault.
(c) A week after the Liberation.
(d) Three weeks before the Liberation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anton move in 1953?

2. Which relative of Cor Takes had been one of the twenty-nine Resistance hostages?

3. In which year does the Third Episode take place?

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

5. What does Mrs. Ploeg do after the war?

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