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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. Why are Gen's services needed right away?
(a) He is an expert translator and is called in to help.
(b) He is a great mediator.
(c) Everyone speaks the same language.
(d) He is very calm under pressure.

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

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

4. What is Mr. Hosokawa's occupation?
(a) A great lawyer.
(b) The ambassador to the US.
(c) Assistant to the president.
(d) A successful businessman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As the accompanist gets sicker, what does one of the hostages do for him?

2. What are the young terrorists craving?

3. For Carmen the siege has been one of the _______ times of her life.

4. When Simon turns on the television one afternoon, what happens?

5. What is the accompanist's real name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel begin and what mood is established?

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

3. Why does Messner become jealous of the hostages?

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

5. Why does Mr. Hosokawa decide to attend his own birthday party?

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

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

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

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

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

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