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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 10 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ari do as he drives the Minister and the man who got into the car with them?
(a) Calls the cops.
(b) Sings to the radio.
(c) Cries.
(d) Stares ahead in silence.

2. What does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister doing "to young thugs who could not even spell their own names" (10)?
(a) Tutoring them.
(b) Finding them jobs.
(c) Giving them guns.
(d) Beating them up.

3. What does the Minister say he is a student of while talking to Ari on their drive?
(a) History.
(b) Love.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Human nature.

4. Why was the devastation outside unsurprising to the Minister when he first left his house with Ari?
(a) He had seen it on the news.
(b) He had sneaked out of his house to look at it one night.
(c) He watched it on the city's closed circuit television.
(d) He had been getting daily briefings.

5. What is happening when the Minister gets knocked to the ground outside of the church?
(a) Two people are throwing sacks of food to the crowd.
(b) The crowd is rushing the Minister's car to get water.
(c) People are shoving each other trying to get on the news.
(d) The crowd pounces on the Minister saying it is all his fault.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do readers learn of the Minister and Elena's past as he holds the crying woman?

2. What does the Minister realize has happened to him when the man lifts him up amidst the crowd outside the church?

3. What does the Minister call Elena?

4. Who appears in the doorway as Elena weeps before the Minister?

5. Why does Ari protest against the Minister's suggestion they stop when they encounter people outside the municipal building?

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