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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 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.

2. Who is with Hosokawa at the theater?
(a) Gen Watanabe, business investor.
(b) Gen Watanabe, his friend and translator.
(c) Gen Wannabe, his partner.
(d) Gen Wannabe, his butler.

3. Even though he is getting extremely ill, what does the accompanist decide to do?
(a) Hide in one of the bedrooms.
(b) Go home and take is diabetes medicine.
(c) He thinks it is time to leave and tries to take Roxane with him.
(d) He decides to stay at Rueben's house to protect Roxane.

4. What makes a hostage uprising impossible?
(a) They do not know each other.
(b) Lack of communication. They only have one translator.
(c) The hostages hate one another.
(d) No weapons.

5. Who is situated in the theater?
(a) Only Hosokawa.
(b) A small audience of select people.
(c) A large international audience.
(d) The president of the US.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the accompanist's real name?

2. Where are the hostages really being taken?

3. Who is Joachim Messner?

4. What do they discover about the accompanist?

5. What does Messner do for the hostages?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although the terrorists seem to have all the control in the situation, what do the hostages offer?

2. When Roxane wishes to sing, who helps her and why is it a surprise?

3. How does Roxane begin to feel about Mr. Hosokawa?

4. What type of mood is set for the beginning of the novel?

5. When the terrorists choose not to shoot a dead body, what are they proving about themselves?

6. How do the hostages and terrorists find a way to communicate with one another?

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

8. Why has Gen become incredibly busy during his stay at Ruben's house?

9. When two terrorists are revealed to be females what changes?

10. What aspects of the situation have led Simon to re-evaluate his life?

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