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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Minister attribute to most of the deaths in the south when he discussing the storm with Elena?
(a) Suicides.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Drownings.
(d) Starvation.

2. Which type of religious person does the Minister say will agonize over what a beggar might do with his money rather than just giving it to him?
(a) Christian.
(b) Buddhist.
(c) Muslim.
(d) Jew.

3. What phrase is used to describe the way the Minister believes his household staff will behave once he leaves the house?
(a) Angels in heaven.
(b) Flies on excrement.
(c) Animals in a zoo.
(d) Beasts upon carrion.

4. What does the Minister see "under the wall that had once circled the parade ground" (3) as he and Ari drive past the devastation?
(a) Hands with fingers cut off.
(b) Decapitated heads.
(c) Pairs of bloated, purple feet.
(d) Barely alive people begging for help.

5. Of what does the Minister's favorite painting remind him?
(a) His ancestral village.
(b) His vacation home.
(c) His children.
(d) His wedding day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the large group of people outside the municipal building do to indicate their thirst?

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

3. The Minister thinks Elena's "pious sincerity" is "as much a memento of his village" (2) as what?

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

5. Where does the man who helps the Minister to his feet say he is from as he tries to help him through the crowd?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Minister lose his shoe when he exits the vehicle to give the people outside the municipal building water?

2. Who helps the Minister to his feet when he falls amidst the crowd outside the church? What does the Minister find suspect about this person?

3. Why is Elena unable to contact her children?

4. Where does Ari stop for the Minister when he has to use the bathroom? Who else is there?

5. What of the Minister and Elena's past does he think of while holding her as she cries?

6. Why is Ari unable to rely on the GPS to get them to the airport?

7. Describe the room the Minister is in at the start of the story. Why is it like this?

8. What does the Minister want Ari to do when they see a crowd of people outside the municipal building?

9. What does the Minister think of when he looks at Elena's body and face?

10. What example does the Minister use to who what he believes is wrong with "the Christ doctrine" (4)?

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