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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about Miro's escape?
(a) Miro is injured as he escapes.
(b) Miro never escapes.
(c) The person who caused all the devastation, goes unharmed.
(d) Miro is captured by the US government after he escapes.

2. Why does she think the terrorists will be able to kill her?
(a) The bus falls into a ditch.
(b) The terrorists are taking aim at the bus as it stalls.
(c) They begin running after the bus.
(d) The bus stalls and they capture her.

3. What is Miro doing before Kate tries to take off?
(a) Speaking with Artkin.
(b) Learn to drive the bus.
(c) Goes to the bathroom.
(d) Getting air outside of the bus.

4. Where were the children originally headed to on the bus?
(a) Day camp.
(b) A large playground.
(c) To school.
(d) To a city park.

5. When Ben dies, what does he see himself as?
(a) Unhappy and weak.
(b) A miserable person.
(c) No longer the General's son.
(d) A coward.

6. What does he hope to do now that the mission is over?
(a) Miro now hopes to continue his terrorist acts.
(b) He wants to stay in the US and learn more about the culture.
(c) Miro hopes to find any surviving family members.
(d) He wants to change his life and make a family.

7. How long does Ben have to stay stationed?
(a) For a week.
(b) Until the negotiations were complete.
(c) For a day.
(d) Until his father came to get him.

8. What chapters is the General now narrating?
(a) All chapters.
(b) The odd chapters.
(c) He is not.
(d) Even chapters.

9. Does the author provide some kind of closure for Kate's character and her family?
(a) Yes. The author describes Kate's funeral.
(b) No, the reader never knows what Kate's family thinks.
(c) No. Kate is never avenged.
(d) Yes. Kate's life is explored in a different section of the novel.

10. Before the assault, how did Miro feel about the violence he was participating in?
(a) Conflicted, but wanting to impress Artkin.
(b) Miro decides that he will no longer participate in violent activites like this.
(c) He thought it was justified, because he wanted his people to be avenged.
(d) Sure. He wanted to fight for the cause.

11. Why does the General try to seek forgiveness?
(a) Because he misses his wife.
(b) Because he lost his job for sending Ben into the field.
(c) He loves his son too much to loose him.
(d) Because he sent his son into a battleground.

12. How does Kate use her sexuality in the book?
(a) She is unsuccessful in seducing Miro.
(b) She uses it to persuade Artkin into following her directions.
(c) She does not use her sexuality.
(d) She uses it to make Miro uncomfortable and confused.

13. How does Miro feel about this realization?
(a) He is glad because he never liked him anyway.
(b) He feels that Kate is lying to him and becomes angry.
(c) He is sad he did not get to know his father.
(d) Miro feels upset that Artkin lied to him about being his father.

14. Why don't the terrorists decide to kill Kate?
(a) They do not wish to kill Kate because she takes care of the children.
(b) They hope Kate will take care of them.
(c) They think Kate will be more valuable alive.
(d) They like Kate.

15. Where does he hide her?
(a) In a boat on the river.
(b) In a cave.
(c) In the ground.
(d) In a nestlike enclosure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kate think will happen to her if she can talk to Miro?

2. Rather than warning Artkin, what does Miro do?

3. What causes the General to break down?

4. While everything happens, what happens to the helicopter?

5. How do the General's thoughts seem to be organized?

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