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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. How are Miro and Ben alike in a sense?
(a) They both look very similar to one another.
(b) Miro, like Ben, is struggling to grow up and deal with adult problems.
(c) They are both scared of other men who are in power.
(d) They are both young men who do not know how to deal with the problems they have been dealt.

2. What does Ben realize as he types his story?
(a) He is hoping he can fix the relationship with his mother.
(b) He wishes that he had more direction in his life.
(c) He is dreading his father's visit.
(d) He hopes that Nettie will go on a date with him.

3. Because Miro has taken part in other terrorist cases, what does this prove about him?
(a) He has a soft side that is dying to come out.
(b) Terrorism is not a whim, but a way of live.
(c) He hopes that he could get out of the terrorism game.
(d) He wants to fit in with other terrorists.

4. What is the driver now fighting for?
(a) Her right to protect herself.
(b) Her life.
(c) Her life and the life of all the children.
(d) The ability to see her fiance again.

5. How are the children forced to go to the bathroom?
(a) Outside of the bus.
(b) In a bathroom.
(c) In a pail.
(d) In their seats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What moves into the woods around the bus?

2. On what continent does the beginning of the novel take place?

3. When Miro hears this sound, he knows that the government has discovered their location.

4. If all the terrorists die, what do they think will happen to their cause?

5. What does Kate gain by Raymond's deception?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do the terrorists take the children?

2. What does Ben remember about the morning of the hijacking?

3. What does Kate discover about Miro?

4. What does the reader begin to understand about Miro as the events of the novel play out?

5. As Part 3 begins, what is Ben hoping happens?

6. When Kate is using the bathroom, what does she find?

7. What do the terrorists do with the child who has died?

8. How do the terrorists get all the children to fall asleep?

9. What does Kate hope for when she hears the helicopters overhead?

10. Where did Ben fall in love with Nettie Haversham?

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