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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 hand to Elena just before leaving with his driver?
(a) His suits.
(b) A dirty towel.
(c) Money.
(d) A ring.

2. What does the large group of people outside the municipal building do to indicate their thirst?
(a) Stick out their tongues and pant.
(b) Mimic drinking from a glass.
(c) Drop their jaws and point inside their mouths.
(d) Pat their hands on their throats.

3. 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 sobs into her hands.
(d) She falls to her knees and begs to be saved.

4. How are the Minister and Elena related?
(a) The Minister is her uncle.
(b) Distant cousins.
(c) Brother and sister.
(d) Husband and wife.

5. Why does the Minister tell Ari to stop when they see a group outside the municipal building?
(a) He wants to bring some of the people with him.
(b) He wants to give them water.
(c) He wants to make a speech.
(d) He wants to take a selfie with them.

6. 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 wife.
(c) The Minister's sister.
(d) The Minister's daughter.

7. What does Elena twist in her hands as she talks to the Minister?
(a) Her apron.
(b) A stuffed bear.
(c) Rosary beads.
(d) A dirty rag.

8. 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 altruistic.
(b) It is so cynical.
(c) It is so poorly educated.
(d) It is so malicious.

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

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

11. How old is the Minister's youngest daughter?
(a) 17.
(b) 25.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

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

13. Where does the man who helps the Minister to his feet say he is from as he tries to help him through the crowd?
(a) Office of the Prime Minister.
(b) The Peace Corps.
(c) The U.S. Army.
(d) Red Cross.

14. What happens when the Minister hands money to a man in the crowd at the municipal building?
(a) The man divides the money among the crowd.
(b) A little girl steals it from the man.
(c) The man asks the Minister for more.
(d) The man falls to his knees and thanks the Minister.

15. Where do Elena's children live?
(a) By the sea.
(b) With Elena and the Minister.
(c) In the country.
(d) In the city.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the Minister tell Ari to stop the second time while they are heading to the airport?

3. What does the Minister say would happen if the Americans chose to shut off their military satellite system?

4. What does the Minister yell out when he arrives on the scene at the municipal building?

5. Why does the Minister ask Ari to stop the car a second time despite having told him he would not do so again?

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