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

2. How long has the Marlboro Man been in prison before he is able to escape?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 5 years.

3. What does the Marlboro Man say he helped build?
(a) The Minister's house.
(b) The church.
(c) The municipal building.
(d) The airport.

4. How are Ari and the man described as the Minister thinks of being stuck in the car with them "on the way to his own execution" (7)?
(a) A lunatic and a coward.
(b) An intellect and a thug.
(c) A devotee and a sinner.
(d) A pragmatist and a rebel.

5. What is the only thing the Prime Minister reads in the present?
(a) Facebook posts.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Bank statements.
(d) Emails.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?

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

3. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?

4. What begins to happen just as the Minister reaches his plane at the end of the story?

5. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Minister say happens to all ungrateful children in the end?

2. What happens at the very end of the story just before the Minister gets on the plane?

3. Why does the Marlboro Man say he wants to go to the airport?

4. How does the Minister react when he sees the Marlboro Man yelling to him, "You, too, are my brother" (11)? What happens as a result?

5. What does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister doing to “young thugs” from surrounding villages for their efforts?

6. How does the man in the car threaten Ari? How does Ari react?

7. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man exits the car and enters the airport crowd? How does he feel about this?

8. Why does the Marlboro Man suggest to the Minister the storm was good luck for him?

9. How long has the Marlboro Man been in jail? How did he get out?

10. Why does the man nudge the Minister as they pass a reservoir and asks if he has anything to say?

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