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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 phrase does the Minister repeat to Elena when she enters the room at the start of the story?
(a) Those were the days.
(b) Tragedy ensues.
(c) Difficult days.
(d) Good times.

2. Who appears in the doorway as Elena weeps before the Minister?
(a) A gunman.
(b) Ari.
(c) The Minister's wife.
(d) The Prime Minister.

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

4. What does Elena do after repeating "God is so powerful" (2) to the Minister?
(a) She quietly bows and walks out of the room.
(b) She calls him a coward for leaving.
(c) She sobs into her hands.
(d) She falls to her knees and begs to be saved.

5. What does the Minister call Elena?
(a) Elle belle.
(b) Lele.
(c) Young lady.
(d) Ma'am.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where are the Minister's wife and children waiting for him?

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

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

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