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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 the Minister attribute to most of the deaths in the south when he discussing the storm with Elena?
(a) Suffocation.
(b) Drownings.
(c) Suicides.
(d) Starvation.

2. Which type of religious person does the Minister say will agonize over what a beggar might do with his money rather than just giving it to him?
(a) Muslim.
(b) Jew.
(c) Christian.
(d) Buddhist.

3. What types of tales did Elena tell the Minister's children when they were young?
(a) Tales of the apocalypse.
(b) Tales of the Devil as a young man.
(c) Tales of elves and fairies.
(d) Tales of Jesus as a young man.

4. What does the Minister do in the back of the car as he passes the devastation from the storm?
(a) Cries quietly into his handkerchief.
(b) Speak incessantly to Ari.
(c) Texts his wife that he is on his way.
(d) Yell out the window that help is on the way.

5. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?
(a) The forest.
(b) Downtown.
(c) The old mill.
(d) The reservoir.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is the Minister's wife described when discussing her first pregnancy?

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

4. What does Elena do after repeating "God is so powerful" (2) to the Minister?

5. Why was the devastation outside unsurprising to the Minister when he first left his house with Ari?

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