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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 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) Pairs of bloated, purple feet.
(c) Hands with fingers cut off.
(d) Barely alive people begging for help.

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

3. What does the Minister hand to Elena just before leaving with his driver?
(a) Money.
(b) A dirty towel.
(c) His suits.
(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) Texts his wife that he is on his way.
(c) Cries quietly into his handkerchief.
(d) Speak incessantly to Ari.

5. Where do Elena's children live?
(a) In the country.
(b) In the city.
(c) By the sea.
(d) With Elena and the Minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "sentence from a previous existence" (2) does the Minister say aloud while alone in his room at the start of the story?

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

3. What did the Minister of Interior's wife call the room in which he stands at the start of the story?

4. What word does the Minister use when describing "these weather events" (2) to Elena?

5. What does Elena twist in her hands as she talks to the Minister?

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