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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Gen's services needed right away?
(a) Everyone speaks the same language.
(b) He is a great mediator.
(c) He is very calm under pressure.
(d) He is an expert translator and is called in to help.

2. What is unique to this language?
(a) Exclusively from the jungle.
(b) Many people know it.
(c) It is a local dialect.
(d) A lessner known language.

3. What do the hostages start to do for the terrorists?
(a) They share their worldly stories.
(b) They write music together.
(c) They start to teach them where places are in the world.
(d) They show them how to use modern day appliances.

4. When Simon turns on the television one afternoon, what happens?
(a) They do not want their prisoners watching television.
(b) It alarms the terrorists. They have no idea what it is.
(c) He reconnects with the outside world.
(d) It breaks.

5. Why does Simon see his wife in a different light?
(a) She is able to fight for herself.
(b) She is dying of a gunshot wound.
(c) She puts her husmand down.
(d) They are in life or death circumstances.

6. As time goes on, what happens to the hostages and terrorists?
(a) They will get very close to one another.
(b) The terrorists let their walls down and the hostages feels more comfortable.
(c) They grow to hate one another.
(d) The hostages start to make plans to take over the terrorists.

7. Why have the terrorists taken over Ruben's house?
(a) They wanted to kill the President in front of millions of people.
(b) They want to burn it down.
(c) They want to free General Benjamin's brother, Luis, from jail.
(d) They want one million dollars.

8. What new role does Gen take on for the group?
(a) He teaches them how to use computers.
(b) Gen takes on the role of a secretary to the generals.
(c) Gen shows them how to read.
(d) He becomes their bulter.

9. Who is with Hosokawa at the theater?
(a) Gen Wannabe, his partner.
(b) Gen Watanabe, his friend and translator.
(c) Gen Watanabe, business investor.
(d) Gen Wannabe, his butler.

10. What does Carmen ask Gen to help her with?
(a) Watch movies with her so that he can translate them.
(b) The way she dresses.
(c) Tutor her in math.
(d) She asks him to teach her Spanish.

11. Right away, as the novel begins, what is clear to the reader concerning Roxane?
(a) She commands respect.
(b) Her voice is beautiful and magnificent.
(c) She is not a real beauty.
(d) She is a kind person.

12. Why has Hosokawa chosen to go to this foreign place?
(a) He was invited for his birthday.
(b) He loves visiting this country.
(c) His mother begged him to fo there.
(d) He has led people to think he will invest in the South American Country.

13. At the end of the chapter, who else is released?
(a) At the end of the chapter, the less wealthy people are released.
(b) The people with less political connections.
(c) The shorter men.
(d) The non buisness men.

14. Why does Hosokawa even decide to attend the celebration?
(a) Only because he wanted to hear Roxane sing.
(b) He wants to find a wife.
(c) He likes meeting new people.
(d) He goes because the President pressure him to go.

15. What does the whole room begin to assume about their relationship (Roxane and the accompanist)?
(a) They are lovers.
(b) She is his daughter.
(c) He is infatuated with her.
(d) He will kill her if she does not return his love.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the siege, what are the terrorists learning?

2. When Roxane sings, what happens to all the hostages?

3. What have all the hostages been told to do?

4. What is this called?

5. As the accompanist gets sicker, what does one of the hostages do for him?

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