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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the Minister use when describing "these weather events" (2) to Elena?
(a) Dazzling.
(b) Demonic.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Disastrous.

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

3. What does the Minister see "under the wall that had once circled the parade ground" (3) as he and Ari drive past the devastation?
(a) Decapitated heads.
(b) Hands with fingers cut off.
(c) Pairs of bloated, purple feet.
(d) Barely alive people begging for help.

4. How is the Minister's wife described when discussing her first pregnancy?
(a) Difficult and pampered.
(b) Tranquil and humorous.
(c) Irritable and contentious.
(d) Honest and hard working.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "Moonlit Landscape with Bridge"?

3. What does the Minister call Elena?

4. The Minister thinks Elena's "pious sincerity" is "as much a memento of his village" (2) as what?

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

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