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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. Who plays the piano for Roxane when she wants to sing?
(a) Kato Tetsuya.
(b) Kato Tetsua.
(c) Tetsuya Kato.
(d) Testa Kato.

2. What new role does Gen take on for the group?
(a) He becomes their bulter.
(b) Gen takes on the role of a secretary to the generals.
(c) He teaches them how to use computers.
(d) Gen shows them how to read.

3. What type of role do you think that Father Arguedas will take on in the story?
(a) He will be a little too into confrontation.
(b) Play an important mediator role during the hostage situation.
(c) He will help all the hostages feel better.
(d) He will be aggressively trying to get nonbelievers to convert.

4. Why does Simon see his wife in a different light?
(a) She is dying of a gunshot wound.
(b) They are in life or death circumstances.
(c) She puts her husmand down.
(d) She is able to fight for herself.

5. What do we learn about the terrorists' true intentions in this section?
(a) The terrorists are serious but not cruel. They do not want to kill.
(b) They will only stop once Ben's brother is free.
(c) They want to kill all the hostages.
(d) They hope to change the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the whole room begin to assume about their relationship (Roxane and the accompanist)?

2. What does Roxane's music cause to happen?

3. When the hostages look out of the window, what do they find?

4. What does Carmen ask Gen to help her with?

5. Why isn't the President at the performance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Messner become jealous of the hostages?

2. As the hostages get used to their new home, what do they learn about their surroundings?

3. Why is this time in the house so important for Carmen and how does she take advantage of her situation?

4. Why do the terrorists choose to keep Roxane at the house?

5. How does Gen make himself important during this scary time?

6. What does Messner discover about the terrorists that have taken over Ruben's house?

7. Why are the generals happy that the new group is smaller and how do they work to whittle down their hostage group?

8. Why does Mr. Hosokawa feel like the hostage situation is his fault?

9. How have Ruben and Roxane adjusted into their roles in the house?

10. What does the accompanist's death prove to the reader?

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