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

2. What does the Minister say he is a student of while talking to Ari on their drive?
(a) Love.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Human nature.
(d) History.

3. The Minister thinks Elena's "pious sincerity" is "as much a memento of his village" (2) as what?
(a) Woven reed baskets and colored shawls.
(b) Clay pots and braided rugs.
(c) Fresh fruit and bare feet.
(d) Morning prayer and porridge.

4. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?
(a) He tells his aide to arrest him.
(b) He waves to the man.
(c) He ignores the man and says nothing.
(d) He yells the same phrase back at the man.

5. What word does the Marlboro Man use to describe the Prime Minister?
(a) Snob.
(b) Toughguy.
(c) Dimwit.
(d) Sissy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ari do as he drives the Minister and the man who got into the car with them?

2. What phrase is used to describe the way the Minister believes his household staff will behave once he leaves the house?

3. What does the Marlboro Man tell the Minister that the Prime Minister, whom he says took all the glory, really was?

4. What does the Minister attribute to most of the deaths in the south when he discussing the storm with Elena?

5. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?

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