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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Anton meets Fake Ploeg as an adult, what does Fake look like?
(a) A politician.
(b) The image of his father.
(c) A soldier.
(d) The image of his mother.

2. What surprises Cor Takes about the events on the night of the assault?
(a) That Anton's parents were given a trial.
(b) That the soldiers burnt Anton's house.
(c) That the Kortewegs dragged the body in front of the Steenwijks' house.
(d) That Fake Ploeg died instantaneously.

3. Cor Takes tells Anton that Fake Ploeg shot whom?
(a) Truus Coster's sister.
(b) Cor Takes's brother.
(c) Truus Coster.
(d) Cor Takes.

4. How are Fake Ploeg and Anton different, according to Anton?
(a) Anton is Dutch, but Fake Ploeg is German.
(b) Anton is a Communist, but Fake Ploeg is not.
(c) Anton's parents were guilty, but Fake Ploeg's father was not.
(d) Anton's parents were innocent, but Fake Ploeg's father was not.

5. What does Mrs. Ploeg do after the war?
(a) Works as an interpreter.
(b) Works as a house cleaner.
(c) Renounces her husband.
(d) Becomes a spy.

6. Who was with Cor Takes the night of the assault?
(a) His mother.
(b) Anton's father-in-law.
(c) His sister.
(d) His girlfriend.

7. How does Fake Ploeg threaten Anton in the Third Episode?
(a) With blackmail.
(b) With a gun.
(c) With the police.
(d) With a rock.

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

9. Why did Cor Takes escape on the night of the assault?
(a) Because Truus Coster urged him to leave.
(b) Because he was friends with the policeman.
(c) Because he stole someone's car.
(d) Because he was getting help for Truus Coster.

10. What item of Truus Coster's does Cor Takes keep in a drawer in his basement?
(a) Her handkerchief.
(b) A lock of hair.
(c) Her hair ribbon.
(d) Her gun.

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

12. Anton realizes that he married Saskia because of what?
(a) Her father's connection to the Resistance.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her resemblance to Truus Coster.
(d) Her helping him forget the assault.

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

14. Why did Truus Coster not escape the night of the assault?
(a) She could not run as fast as Cor Takes.
(b) She had been shot in the back.
(c) She felt guilty for shooting Fake Ploeg.
(d) She turned back to help Fake Ploeg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anton specialize in?

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

3. What does Cor Takes want to know from Anton?

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

5. What is hanging on the wall of Cor Takes's basement?

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