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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 moves into the woods around the bus?
(a) Snipers.
(b) Bomb experts.
(c) Scary animals.
(d) Shooters.

2. How did Ben assume that love happened?
(a) The exact way that Ben's mother and father fell in love.
(b) One person chases after the other.
(c) It happens between two people and goes both ways.
(d) Only between adults.

3. What does Miro and Artkin's relationship resemble?
(a) That of a father and son.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Two very close friends.
(d) An uncle and nephew.

4. What happens as they take the bus to a secure location?
(a) One of the children dies from the drugs in the candy.
(b) Miro gets in trouble for talking to Kate.
(c) Kate is beaten because she won't be quiet.
(d) Artkin tries to beat one of the children.

5. How does Miro cover the bus' windows?
(a) He uses paper to cover the windows.
(b) Miro uses the children's homework pages.
(c) Miro uses tape to cover the windows of the bus.
(d) He uses newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because Miro has taken part in other terrorist cases, what does this prove about him?

2. Where is the bus taken?

3. What has Raymond attempted to do to the hijackers?

4. At this point in the book, what is happening with Miro?

5. In Part 1, what is Ben anticipating?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do the terrorists take the children?

2. What was the General in charge of while he worked at Forte Delta?

3. What does Kate discover about Miro?

4. Why did the author choose to pick the 1970s for the setting of the novel?

5. When Artkin summons Miro, what does he tell him about?

6. What does the reader realize as the narration of the novel continues?

7. When Kate asks to take all of the children to the bathroom, what is she given instead?

8. How do events begin to take a turn for the worse?

9. What do the events of the novel show to the reader?

10. Why does Kate get nervous about having the responsibility of saving the children that are on the bus?

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