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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. If Sedeete does not hear the signal, what should Artkin do?

2. Despite Kate's objections, what does Artkin give the children?

3. What is Miro eager for?

4. At what time should Artikin's action happen?

5. In Miro's life, who has died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Miro excited for this day?

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

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

4. As the novel begins, what is Ben Marchand waiting for?

5. What do the terrorists hope to gain from the negotiations?

6. What is different about Miro and Ben?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What qualities do Artkin and Miro share with one another? Are they typical father and son similarities

How has Artkin trained Miro to become a terrorist and how does Miro fight the urge to become a terrorist?

Essay Topic 3

What American rites of passage are present or mentioned in this novel?

What characters are forced to go through these?

How might these rites of passage differ from ones that Miro was forced to live through.

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