Question 1

What was the notice about?

Accepted Answer

Grow A black Tulip to win A big prize

Question 2

How much was the prize?

Accepted Answer

100,000 guilders

Answer

1000,000 guilders

Answer

10,000 guilders

Question 3

Who was the president of the flower society?

Accepted Answer

Van Systens

Answer

Isaac Boxtel

Question 4

Where did Cornelius Van Baerle and Isaac Boxtel live?

Accepted Answer

in Dort

Answer

in Haarlem

Question 5

How old was Cornelius Van Baerle?

Accepted Answer

25 years old

Answer

35 years old

Answer

22 years old

Question 6

What will Cornelius do with the prize?

Accepted Answer

he will give 50.000 guilders to the poor people of Dort .

Answer

he will give 5.000 guilders to the poor people of Dort .

Answer

he will talk all the prize

Question 7

what was Cornelius Van Baerle ?

Accepted Answer

scientist

Answer

doctor

Answer

translator

Question 8

Who was the best tulip grower in Dort town for many years?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Boxtel

Answer

Cornelius Van Baerle

Question 9

Why did Isaac Boxtel buy a telescope?

Accepted Answer

to watch Cornelius in his drying- room

Answer

to watch Cornelius in his garden

Answer

to watch Cornelius in his dinning- room

Question 10

What was the drying-room?

Accepted Answer

a special room with very big windows and many drawers and cupboards.

Answer

a special room with very small windows and many drawers and cupboards.

Question 11

Cornelius Van Baerle was poor and stupid but he worked hard.

Accepted Answer

false

Answer

true

Question 12

Isaac is an old man he  has a thin face and white hair

Accepted Answer

true

Answer

false

Question 13

Cornelius Van Baerle and Isaac Boxtel were friends.

Accepted Answer

false

Answer

true

Question 14

Isaac Boxtel was   _________ man.

Accepted Answer

an old and ugly

Answer

a young

Answer

a handsome

Question 15

Cornelius Van Baerle was ____

Accepted Answer

young

Answer

bad

Answer

ugly

Question 16

Isaac was _______ Cornelius Van Baerle.

Accepted Answer

jealous of

Answer

good with

Answer

friendly with

Question 17

Who visited Cornelius Van Baerle at his house?

Accepted Answer

Cornelius De Witt

Answer

John De Witt

Question 18

What was Cornelius De Witt interested in?

Accepted Answer

politics

Answer

tulip

Question 19

Did the young Cornelius open the package?

Accepted Answer

no , he did not

Answer

yes, he did

Question 20

Where did Cornelius Van Baerle put the package?

Accepted Answer

in drawer

Answer

on table

Question 21

What did Isaac saw through the window?

Accepted Answer

Cornelius De Witt give a package to the young man .

Answer

Cornelius De Witt give money  to the young man

Question 22

Isaac saw the two men but he couldn’t hear them.

Accepted Answer

true

Answer

false

Question 23

Isaac thought that there were ___ in the package.

Accepted Answer

secrets

Answer

money

Answer

bulbs

Question 24

Young Cornelius was interested in __

Accepted Answer

tulips

Answer

prisons

Answer

politics

Question 25

The De Witt brothers lived in ____

Accepted Answer

Hague

Answer

Haarlem

Answer

Lovenstein

Question 26

Cornelius De Witt didn’t tell his plan although he was tortured.

Accepted Answer

true

Answer

false

Question 27

In the young Cornelius’s room the lights were from ___

Accepted Answer

candles

Answer

drawers

Answer

bulbs

Question 28

Gryphus had ___ daughter.

Accepted Answer

a beautiful

Answer

an ugly

Answer

an old

Question 29

Gryphus was a good-tempered old man.

Accepted Answer

false

Answer

true

Question 30

Who murdered Cornelius De Witt and his brother John?

Accepted Answer

a crowd of angry people

Answer

William ,the  prince of orange

Question 31

Who took the key of the harbor gate?

Accepted Answer

William , prince of orange

Answer

soliders

Question 32

Where was the coach which carried the De Witts going?

Accepted Answer

Harbour gate

Answer

city gate

Question 33

“God will help him and his brother” Who said?

Accepted Answer

Rosa

Answer

jailer

Question 34

Who took the letter to the young Cornelius?

Accepted Answer

Craeke

Answer

solider

Question 35

The people of the seven states hated Cornelius and his brother John

Accepted Answer

true

Answer

false

Question 36

Rosa was unkind with Cornelius De Witt.

Accepted Answer

false

Answer

true

Question 37

Who helped the De Witts to escape from the Hague prison?

Accepted Answer

Rosa

Answer

Craeke

Question 38

Can Rosa read or write?

Accepted Answer

No, she can‘t

Answer

yes, she can

Question 39

What did Cornelius De Witt give Rosa?

Accepted Answer

a book

Answer

money

Answer

a letter

Question 40

Where were the horses and the coach waiting?

Accepted Answer

near the small gate

Answer

near the harbor gate

Question 41

Where did Cornelius De Witt find a paper to write the letter on?

Accepted Answer

he tore a page of white paper from  the front of the  book next to his bed .

Answer

Rosa gave him paper

Answer

from newspaper

Question 42

Where were the letters?

Accepted Answer

in Dort

Answer

in Hague

Question 43

Did Cornelius De Witt burn the letters?

Accepted Answer

No, he did not

Answer

Yes,he did

Question 44

Why was Cornelius lying on a bed?

Accepted Answer

because he was badly injured

Answer

because he was tired

Question 45

What is the name of Gryphus’s daughter?

Accepted Answer

Rosa

Question 46

How old was Gryphus’s daughter?

Accepted Answer

17 years old

Answer

20 years old

Answer

18 years old

Question 47

What was the name of the old jailor in Hague prison?

Accepted Answer

Gryphus

Answer

Van Systens

Question 48

“You and your brother John are bad men” Who said?

Accepted Answer

judge

Answer

soliders

Question 49

“Take Cornelius to the Hague prison” Who said?

Accepted Answer

angry people

Answer

William

Question 50

What story did the people of the seven states tell each other?

Accepted Answer

Cornelius De Witt wants to kill prince William

Answer

Cornelius De Witt is friend of the king of France

Question 51

Whom did the people of the seven states want as a leader and why?

Accepted Answer

Prince William beacause he is young and strong.

Answer

king of France

Question 52

Were the De Witt brothers friend of the French king Louis XIV?

Accepted Answer

Yes, they were

Answer

No, they were n‘t

Question 53

What did people want to do with Cornelius De Witt?

Accepted Answer

A and B correct

Answer

send him away from the seven states

Answer

punish him torture him ! find out about his plans.

Answer

kill him

Question 54

Who took Cornelius De Witt’s money?

Accepted Answer

soliders

Answer

angry people

Question 55

Where did the two men Cornelius Van Baerle and Cornelius De Witt sit?

Accepted Answer

drying- room

Answer

sitting room

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