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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What color is Saskia's hair?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Reddish.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

3. What kind of student is Anton?
(a) Sloppy.
(b) Failing.
(c) Superior.
(d) Fair-to-middling.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fake Ploeg break in Anton's apartment?

2. Where does Anton take his wife and daughter after the funeral?

3. At what point in the conversation with Cor Takes does Anton become emotional?

4. What item of Truus Coster's does Cor Takes keep in a drawer in his basement?

5. Why does Anton make an appointment with Cor Takes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fake Ploeg speak of his father?

2. What detail of the night of the assault puzzles both Cor Takes and Anton?

3. How does Anton feel about politics?

4. What is the atmosphere at the funeral in the Fourth Episode?

5. Describe Anton's first wife.

6. How does Anton meet Cor Takes?

7. Why is there a mob in front of Anton's apartment building in the Third Episode?

8. What has changed in Anton's life between the Second and Third Episode?

9. What are Anton's pastimes while he is an intern?

10. Why is Anton prevented from entering his apartment in the Third Episode?

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