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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does Miro tell Kate about concerning his home?

2. What does Miro think of Artkin's plan?

3. Who is in charge with negotiations with the military?

4. In Part 1, what is Ben anticipating?

5. Why is Miro anxious about the hijacking?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Kate discover about Miro?

3. Where do the terrorists take the children?

4. According to Ben's father, what do the terrorists want?

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

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

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

8. What is different about Miro and Ben?

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

10. What is Ben very eager to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Two thirds of the way through the novel, the author begins to focus on two relationships. When it is revealed that Artkin in Miro's father, the author shifts the reader's attention to their apparent father/son relationship. Compare this relationship to Ben and the General.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the theme of forgiveness throughout the book. Choose three instances in which a character attempts to ask for forgiveness.

Essay Topic 3

Kate, Ben, and Raymond are all but in a very dangerous situation in which there is little hope and a large amount of doubt.

How do characters deal with doubt in the novel?

What do they look to in order to carry themselves through the difficult situations they have been put in?

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