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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4 - 6 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ari do when the man who is grabbing the Minister tells him to back the car up?
(a) He rolls down the window and asks the man for identification.
(b) He drives over the man's foot.
(c) He backs the car up.
(d) He drives away.

2. Why was the devastation outside unsurprising to the Minister when he first left his house with Ari?
(a) He had been getting daily briefings.
(b) He watched it on the city's closed circuit television.
(c) He had seen it on the news.
(d) He had sneaked out of his house to look at it one night.

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

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

5. Who could Elena be "easily mistaken" (3) for as the Minister holds her while his driver waits for him?
(a) The Minister's mother.
(b) The Minister's sister.
(c) The Minister's wife.
(d) The Minister's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion does Ari say he follows?

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

3. What does the large group of people outside the municipal building do to indicate their thirst?

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

5. What phrase does the Minister repeat to Elena when she enters the room at the start of the story?

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