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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Anton's first daughter?

3. Fake Ploeg tells Anton that he will never forget what?

4. Cor Takes tells Anton that Truus Coster was killed when?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fake Ploeg speak of his father?

2. What causes Anton and Cor Takes to become emotional while discussing the night of the assault?

3. What had prevented Truus Coster from escaping on the night of the assault?

4. What information does Cor Takes give Anton about the assault that he did not know previously?

5. Describe the meeting of Anton and Fake Ploeg when they are adults.

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

7. What are the similarities and differences between Anton and Fake Ploeg (the son)?

8. What calls Cor Takes away from the basement while Anton is visiting him?

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

10. How does Anton feel about politics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cor Takes believes that shooting Fake Ploeg will help end evil. Does it? Cite three examples of people who were impacted by the assault. Explain why or why not Fake Ploeg's death was worth the consequences it caused.

Essay Topic 2

Several women have a significant impact on Anton's life. Choose three of them, explain their relationship to Anton, and describe the influence they had on him.

Essay Topic 3

Retribution is a theme connected with the shooting of Fake Ploeg. Do any of the characters in "The Assault" deserve to die? Choose three characters and defend your answer to this question.

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