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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Minister say to the Marlboro Man when he tries to say the two are similar?
(a) The Minister says that the Man is far more noble than he is.
(b) He tells him he is insane.
(c) The Minister says that he should have been arrested with the man.
(d) He agrees with him.

2. What does the Minister realize as a group of aids guide him down the tarmac?
(a) He forgot his suitcase.
(b) He did not say goodbye to Ari.
(c) He does not want to see his wife.
(d) He set the Marlboro Man free.

3. What does the Minister tell the Marlboro Man will happen to him once they reach the airport?
(a) He will be arrested.
(b) He will be executed.
(c) Ari will bring him back to the church.
(d) He will be taken to Paris.

4. What does the man tell the Minister is disappointing after the Minister says he knows the man will kill them?
(a) That the Minister was not prepared for the storm.
(b) That the Minister is running away.
(c) That the Minister does not recognize the man.
(d) That the Minister relies on Ari to help him.

5. What begins to happen just as the Minister reaches his plane at the end of the story?
(a) The airport floods.
(b) It starts to snow.
(c) It starts to rain.
(d) The plane begin to take off before the Minister gets on it.

6. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?
(a) Their hair is shorter.
(b) They have much more money.
(c) Their bellies are bigger.
(d) They are far more educated.

7. What does the Marlboro Man do when they approach a checkpoint near the airport?
(a) He squeezes his arm around the Minister.
(b) He holds up a badge.
(c) He pulls a gun out.
(d) He holds a knife to Ari's waist.

8. How old is the Minister of Interior?
(a) Early 50s.
(b) Late 30s.
(c) Mid-60s.
(d) Late 70s.

9. What does the Marlboro Man tell the Minister he is a student of?
(a) Human nature.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) History.
(d) Philosophy.

10. What word does the Marlboro Man mispronounce while the Minister walks down the tarmac?
(a) Adios.
(b) Aloha.
(c) Ciao.
(d) Bon Voyage.

11. How does the Minister know the man in the car is not from the Red Cross?
(a) His uniform is not a Red Cross uniform.
(b) The Red Cross no longer exists.
(c) He does not have a Red Cross I.D.
(d) The man told him he is not from the Red Cross.

12. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?
(a) To church.
(b) To the airport.
(c) To a hotel.
(d) To a cafe.

13. What author does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister reading in their youth?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Salinger.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Vonnegut.

14. How long ago does the Marlboro Man say he was given that nickname?
(a) 20 years ago.
(b) 40 years ago.
(c) 10 years ago.
(d) 3 years ago.

15. Who does the man say gave him the nickname The Marlboro Man?
(a) The Minister's wife.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) Elena.
(d) The Minister of Interior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ari repeat over and over as he drives the man and the Minister?

2. What does Ari do as he drives the Minister and the man who got into the car with them?

3. Why was the Marlboro Man given that nickname?

4. What does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister doing "to young thugs who could not even spell their own names" (10)?

5. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?

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