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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 7 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ari do when the man who is grabbing the Minister tells him to back the car up?
(a) He rolls down the window and asks the man for identification.
(b) He backs the car up.
(c) He drives over the man's foot.
(d) He drives away.

2. What does the Minister do "out of habit" (2) when he sees how Elena is suffering?
(a) He turns away in horror.
(b) He offers to buy her something nice.
(c) He multiplies her suffering by the population.
(d) He whistles a happy tune.

3. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?
(a) Their bellies are bigger.
(b) They have much more money.
(c) They are far more educated.
(d) Their hair is shorter.

4. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?
(a) To a cafe.
(b) To church.
(c) To a hotel.
(d) To the airport.

5. Who appears in the doorway as Elena weeps before the Minister?
(a) Ari.
(b) The Minister's wife.
(c) The Prime Minister.
(d) A gunman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Minister tell Ari to stop the second time while they are heading to the airport?

2. How does the Minister know the man in the car is not from the Red Cross?

3. What does the Minister tell Elena was "a wicked lie in the foreign press" (2)?

4. What does the Marlboro Man say he helped build?

5. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?

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