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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 is unique about all of the children who have died?
(a) They are all left handed.
(b) They are all the only child in their families.
(c) They are all boys.
(d) They are all very smart.

2. When does Kate think she can steal the bus?
(a) Before dawn.
(b) When Miro goes outside for air.
(c) When Miro decides to go to the bathroom.
(d) After nightfall.

3. Why does Ben feel he needs forgiveness?
(a) He thinks he failed his government.
(b) He has let his mother down.
(c) He wanted to beat the terrorists.
(d) He needs it because he feels like he failed his father.

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

5. What causes mass confusion at the hijacking site?
(a) All the hostages are found dead.
(b) The hijackers are assaulted sooner than expected.
(c) The attackers are not sure when they should attack the terrorists.
(d) Bombs go off.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the terrorists react to this death?

2. During the hijacking, what does Miro struggle with?

3. What chapters is the General now narrating?

4. How does Kate use her sexuality in the book?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the terrorists think will happen with the attack from Inner Delta?

2. What is shocking about the end of the novel?

3. What led to Ben's suicide.

4. As the General looks back on the day of the hijacking, what does he wonder?

5. What does the reader begin to wonder about Ben's involvement with the terrorists?

6. What does Kate underestimate about Miro?

7. What does Miro think about as Artkin tortures Ben?

8. How is the book's ending ironic?

9. What does the General remember about the day of the hijacking?

10. Why has Ben felt so much guilt over the past few years?

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