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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elena twist in her hands as she talks to the Minister?
(a) Rosary beads.
(b) Her apron.
(c) A stuffed bear.
(d) A dirty rag.

2. What does the large group of people outside the municipal building do to indicate their thirst?
(a) Stick out their tongues and pant.
(b) Mimic drinking from a glass.
(c) Pat their hands on their throats.
(d) Drop their jaws and point inside their mouths.

3. Where does the Minister tell Ari to stop the second time while they are heading to the airport?
(a) A library.
(b) A church.
(c) His old office.
(d) The police station.

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. What do readers learn of the Minister and Elena's past as he holds the crying woman?
(a) They had once been married.
(b) They used to despise on another.
(c) They had had an affair.
(d) They had been schoolmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the Minister hands money to a man in the crowd at the municipal building?

2. Who appears in the doorway as Elena weeps before the Minister?

3. What phrase is used to describe the way the Minister believes his household staff will behave once he leaves the house?

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

5. Where will the Minister of Interior's driver take him?

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