View a FREE sample

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

2. What is Elena's gaze compared to at the start of the story?
(a) Paintings of noble women.
(b) Newsreel of starving children in war torn countries.
(c) Portraits of heroic peasants.
(d) Images of ruthless soldiers.

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

4. 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) Peace be with you.
(c) God bless us all.
(d) So it goes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Minister note about Elena as they speak at the start of the story?

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

4. Who is the first character readers meet at the start of "Moonlit Landscape with Bridge"?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 321 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample