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

2. How does Miro finally escape?
(a) He steals a cop car.
(b) By stealing the bus and rushing off.
(c) He catches a boat to another country.
(d) By stealing a car.

3. Why is Raymond's death so sad?
(a) Kate was forced to kill Raymond.
(b) He came to his parents later in life.
(c) Raymond did not die.
(d) Another innocent was killed.

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

5. Why did the General use Ben to go into the hijacking situation?
(a) He wanted to look good to his superiors.
(b) He needed to mislead the hijackers.
(c) He hated his son.
(d) Ben wanted to be used.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't the terrorists decide to kill Kate?

2. What does Miro feel over Artkin?

3. Does the reader ever really learn about Ben's mother?

4. Who does Artkin shoot as he falls down?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to Ben's suicide.

2. How does Kate start the bus?

3. Why are the deaths horribly tragic in the book?

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

5. Where does Miro leave Kate's body?

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

7. Who has taken over the narration of the novel in this section?

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

9. How does Artkin die?

10. Why does Miro decide to kill Kate?

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