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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 repeat over and over as he drives the man and the Minister?
(a) Please don't kill me.
(b) Please get out of the car.
(c) Please don't kill him.
(d) Please don't kill us.

2. What does the Minister note about Elena as they speak at the start of the story?
(a) She does not make eye contact.
(b) She has developed an eye twitch.
(c) She stutters.
(d) She hunches more than before.

3. What useless thing does Ari tell the Minister he will not be listening to while they drive?
(a) The Minister's wife.
(b) The Minister.
(c) The GPS.
(d) The radio.

4. What does the Minister tell Elena was "a wicked lie in the foreign press" (2)?
(a) That the Minister was running away.
(b) That the Minister refused to send aid.
(c) That they set the storm in motion.
(d) That they were unprepared.

5. How long ago does the Marlboro Man say he was given that nickname?
(a) 20 years ago.
(b) 3 years ago.
(c) 10 years ago.
(d) 40 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ari protest against the Minister's suggestion they stop when they encounter people outside the municipal building?

2. What does the Minister say to Ari about his generation when he wants Ari to stop for the people outside the municipal building?

3. What does the Minister attribute to most of the deaths in the south when he discussing the storm with Elena?

4. Why does the Minister ask Ari to stop the car a second time despite having told him he would not do so again?

5. Who does the man say gave him the nickname The Marlboro Man?

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