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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 the author trying to prove is very tragic?

2. Where does Miro put Kate's body?

3. Why does Miro kill Kate?

4. What causes the General to break down?

5. How does Artkin learn about the assault on the terrorists?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Artkin die?

2. As the General looks back on the day of the hijacking, what does he wonder?

3. What does Kate underestimate about Miro?

4. Where does Miro leave Kate's body?

5. Why does Kate become nervous and sad?

6. What does the reader begin to wonder about Ben's involvement with the terrorists?

7. Why isn't Miro blamed for his inability to control Kate?

8. What does the reader discover about the General in this section?

9. What does Miro think about as Artkin tortures Ben?

10. Why is Raymond forced to take more candy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It seems as though the author is constantly trying to compare the lives of the three main characters. What themes does the author seem to emphasize with Kate, Ben, and Miro?

Essay Topic 2

What American rites of passage are present or mentioned in this novel?

What characters are forced to go through these?

How might these rites of passage differ from ones that Miro was forced to live through.

Essay Topic 3

Kate, Ben, and Raymond are all but in a very dangerous situation in which there is little hope and a large amount of doubt.

How do characters deal with doubt in the novel?

What do they look to in order to carry themselves through the difficult situations they have been put in?

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