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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4 - 6 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ari do when the man who is grabbing the Minister tells him to back the car up?
(a) He drives over the man's foot.
(b) He backs the car up.
(c) He rolls down the window and asks the man for identification.
(d) He drives away.

3. What does Elena do after repeating "God is so powerful" (2) to the Minister?
(a) She quietly bows and walks out of the room.
(b) She calls him a coward for leaving.
(c) She sobs into her hands.
(d) She falls to her knees and begs to be saved.

4. What did the Minister of Interior's wife call the room in which he stands at the start of the story?
(a) The salon.
(b) The library.
(c) The cafe.
(d) The spa.

5. What does the Minister do in the back of the car as he passes the devastation from the storm?
(a) Cries quietly into his handkerchief.
(b) Speak incessantly to Ari.
(c) Texts his wife that he is on his way.
(d) Yell out the window that help is on the way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Minister tell Elena he will do once settled with his wife and family?

2. What does the Minister tell Elena was "a wicked lie in the foreign press" (2)?

3. What does the Minister say to Ari about his generation when he wants Ari to stop for the people outside the municipal building?

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

5. What does the Minister say would happen if the Americans chose to shut off their military satellite system?

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