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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 is the Minister of Interior's driver's name?
(a) Ari.
(b) Elena.
(c) Al.
(d) Elvis.

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

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

4. What weapon does the man who said he was Red Cross use to frighten Ari?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A gun.
(c) A club.
(d) A knife.

5. Why does the Minister ask Ari to stop the car a second time despite having told him he would not do so again?
(a) He wants to get dinner.
(b) He sees another crowd of needy people.
(c) He needs to go to the bathroom.
(d) He needs a cup of coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ari do when the man who is grabbing the Minister tells him to back the car up?

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

3. What does the Minister say to the Marlboro Man when he tries to say the two are similar?

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

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

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