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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the Minister and Elena related?
(a) The Minister is her uncle.
(b) Distant cousins.
(c) Brother and sister.
(d) Husband and wife.

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

3. What does the Minister hand to Elena just before leaving with his driver?
(a) His suits.
(b) A dirty towel.
(c) Money.
(d) A ring.

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

5. What "sentence from a previous existence" (2) does the Minister say aloud while alone in his room at the start of the story?
(a) Adios, amigo.
(b) God bless us all.
(c) So it goes.
(d) Peace be with you.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Minister tell Elena was "a wicked lie in the foreign press" (2)?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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