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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 10 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase is used to describe the way the Minister believes his household staff will behave once he leaves the house?
(a) Animals in a zoo.
(b) Flies on excrement.
(c) Angels in heaven.
(d) Beasts upon carrion.

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

3. Where will the Minister of Interior's driver take him?
(a) The bus station.
(b) The airport.
(c) Church.
(d) His office.

4. What does the Minister appreciate about Elena?
(a) Her intellect.
(b) Her sense of humor.
(c) Her stern nature.
(d) Her simplicity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the Minister's favorite painting remind him?

2. What does the Minister hand to Elena just before leaving with his driver?

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

4. What do readers learn of the Minister and Elena's past as he holds the crying woman?

5. What is the Minister of Interior's driver's name?

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