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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4 - 6 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ari protest against the Minister's suggestion they stop when they encounter people outside the municipal building?
(a) Ari is afraid the car will get hijacked.
(b) Ari is low on gas.
(c) The Minister will miss his plane.
(d) Ari seems someone in the crowd he dislikes.

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

3. What does man ask the Minister to do when he first arrives at the municipal building?
(a) Rebuild their city.
(b) Leave them alone.
(c) Help his family.
(d) Take him to Paris.

4. Why was the devastation outside unsurprising to the Minister when he first left his house with Ari?
(a) He watched it on the city's closed circuit television.
(b) He had been getting daily briefings.
(c) He had seen it on the news.
(d) He had sneaked out of his house to look at it one night.

5. The Minister thinks Elena's "pious sincerity" is "as much a memento of his village" (2) as what?
(a) Fresh fruit and bare feet.
(b) Clay pots and braided rugs.
(c) Morning prayer and porridge.
(d) Woven reed baskets and colored shawls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elena twist in her hands as she talks to the Minister?

2. In addition to the crowd, what other people are at the church where the Minister stops to urinate?

3. What does the large group of people outside the municipal building do to indicate their thirst?

4. What does the Minister tell Elena he will do once settled with his wife and family?

5. What does the Minister do "out of habit" (2) when he sees how Elena is suffering?

(see the answer key)

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