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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Anton take his wife and daughter after the funeral?
(a) To his childhood home.
(b) To England.
(c) To the memorial in Haarlem.
(d) To the beach.

2. Why does Anton's uncle not attend his wedding?
(a) He does not approve of Anton's wife.
(b) He has become estranged from Anton.
(c) He died in the war.
(d) He died in an auto accident.

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

4. What does Cor Takes tell Anton at the end of the Fourth Episode?
(a) That his friend just killed himself because a war criminal was released.
(b) That he had been a British spy.
(c) That his wife left him after the war.
(d) That he is going to commit suicide because he misses Truus Coster so much.

5. Where does Anton meet Cor Takes?
(a) At a wedding.
(b) At a bar.
(c) On the street.
(d) At a party.

6. What happened to Mrs. Ploeg after the war?
(a) She remarried.
(b) She moved to America.
(c) She committed suicide.
(d) She was arrested.

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

8. What is the name of the girl who spent a night in jail with Anton?
(a) Sandra Steenwijk.
(b) Truus Coster.
(c) Truus Rutgers.
(d) Saskia Steenwifjk.

9. How does Anton respond to world politics?
(a) Without interest.
(b) With anger.
(c) With despondence.
(d) With fear.

10. Fake Ploeg tells Anton that he will never forget what?
(a) That Anton found him.
(b) The night of the assault.
(c) That time in the classroom.
(d) That Anton betrayed him.

11. Which current war is being discussed after the funeral in the Fourth Episode?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The War on Terror.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) World War II.

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

13. In the Third Episode, where is Fake Ploeg working?
(a) A cleaning service.
(b) A fine restaurant.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A household appliance store.

14. Where does Fake Ploeg live in the Third Episode?
(a) Haarlam.
(b) Den Helder.
(c) America.
(d) Amsterdam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the second night of the protest against the Communist Party, why does Anton decide not to stay at his aunt and uncle's?

2. Where does Cor Takes keep a picture of Truus Coster?

3. Cor Takes tells Anton that Fake Ploeg shot whom?

4. Where does Anton meet Saskia?

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

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