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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 10 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do readers learn of the Minister and Elena's past as he holds the crying woman?
(a) They used to despise on another.
(b) They had had an affair.
(c) They had been schoolmates.
(d) They had once been married.

2. How long had it been since the Minister had left the house when he leaves with Ari?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 6 hours.
(d) 3 days.

3. What does the Minister realize as a group of aids guide him down the tarmac?
(a) He does not want to see his wife.
(b) He set the Marlboro Man free.
(c) He forgot his suitcase.
(d) He did not say goodbye to Ari.

4. What does Ari tell the Minister will happen if they stop the car a second time while on the way to the airport?
(a) The car might run out of gas.
(b) He will walk out and the Minister will be on his own.
(c) Someone will steal the car.
(d) Someone will slit his throat.

5. What is happening when the Minister gets knocked to the ground outside of the church?
(a) The crowd is rushing the Minister's car to get water.
(b) The crowd pounces on the Minister saying it is all his fault.
(c) Two people are throwing sacks of food to the crowd.
(d) People are shoving each other trying to get on the news.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?

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

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

5. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?

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