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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Minister say to Ari about his generation when he wants Ari to stop for the people outside the municipal building?
(a) It is so cynical.
(b) It is so poorly educated.
(c) It is so altruistic.
(d) It is so malicious.

2. 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 been schoolmates.
(c) They had once been married.
(d) They had had an affair.

3. What does the Minister say would happen if the Americans chose to shut off their military satellite system?
(a) All hell would break loose.
(b) They would be liberated.
(c) They would be plunged into darkness.
(d) Nobody would leave the house.

4. Of what does the Minister's favorite painting remind him?
(a) His vacation home.
(b) His children.
(c) His ancestral village.
(d) His wedding day.

5. What does the Minister do "out of habit" (2) when he sees how Elena is suffering?
(a) He multiplies her suffering by the population.
(b) He offers to buy her something nice.
(c) He turns away in horror.
(d) He whistles a happy tune.

6. Who is the author of "Moonlit Landscape with Bridge"?
(a) Zadie Smith.
(b) Stella Zaentz.
(c) Sadie Jones.
(d) Zelda Sears.

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

8. What does Elena do after repeating "God is so powerful" (2) to the Minister?
(a) She calls him a coward for leaving.
(b) She quietly bows and walks out of the room.
(c) She falls to her knees and begs to be saved.
(d) She sobs into her hands.

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

10. What does the Minister note about Elena as they speak at the start of the story?
(a) She does not make eye contact.
(b) She hunches more than before.
(c) She stutters.
(d) She has developed an eye twitch.

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

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

13. Where are the Minister's wife and children waiting for him?
(a) Rome.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Barcelona.

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

15. What does the Minister tell Elena he will do once settled with his wife and family?
(a) FaceTime her.
(b) Send for her.
(c) Send her final paycheck.
(d) Write to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elena's gaze compared to at the start of the story?

2. What does the Minister say he is a student of while talking to Ari on their drive?

3. What does man ask the Minister to do when he first arrives at the municipal building?

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 Minister realize has happened to him when the man lifts him up amidst the crowd outside the church?

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