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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. Where did Ben grow up?
(a) In NYC.
(b) With his Aunt Kelly.
(c) With his mother in the country.
(d) On a military base.

2. What has Artkin promised to treat Miro as?
(a) An equal.
(b) His son.
(c) An adult.
(d) A friend.

3. What does Kate wonder about in this section?
(a) Her future.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her job.
(d) Whether or not she can save the children.

4. How has Miro grown up?
(a) On the streets of NYC.
(b) With only his brother.
(c) In a terrorist cell.
(d) With his mother in a small country.

5. At this point in the book, what is happening with Miro?
(a) He is wishing he was not a part of this plan.
(b) He is living through the actual day of the hijacking.
(c) He has decided to kill himself.
(d) He is fighting the realization that his brother is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kate suffer from?

2. What does Miro admire about Artkin?

3. What do both Ben and the General choose to use to convey their feelings throughout the novel?

4. What has Raymond attempted to do to the hijackers?

5. At what age was Miro expected to die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the events of the novel show to the reader?

2. What does Kate hope for when she hears the helicopters overhead?

3. Why doesn't Raymond fall asleep?

4. What does the reader realize as the narration of the novel continues?

5. What does Ben remember about the morning of the hijacking?

6. When Kate asks to take all of the children to the bathroom, what is she given instead?

7. When Ben's father arrives at Ben's dorm, what do the two men do?

8. What is different about Miro and Ben?

9. As the novel begins, what is Ben Marchand waiting for?

10. When Artkin summons Miro, what does he tell him about?

(see the answer keys)

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