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

2. What does Ari repeat over and over as he drives the man and the Minister?
(a) Please get out of the car.
(b) Please don't kill him.
(c) Please don't kill us.
(d) Please don't kill me.

3. How old is the Minister's youngest daughter?
(a) 25.
(b) 3.
(c) 17.
(d) 12.

4. What does the Minister tell Elena he will do once settled with his wife and family?
(a) Send for her.
(b) Send her final paycheck.
(c) FaceTime her.
(d) Write to her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Marlboro Man do when they approach a checkpoint near the airport?

2. Where does the Minister tell Ari to stop the second time while they are heading to the airport?

3. What did the Minister of Interior's wife call the room in which he stands at the start of the story?

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

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

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