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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What useless thing does Ari tell the Minister he will not be listening to while they drive?
(a) The GPS.
(b) The Minister's wife.
(c) The Minister.
(d) The radio.

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

3. What does the Minister attribute to most of the deaths in the south when he discussing the storm with Elena?
(a) Suicides.
(b) Drownings.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Suffocation.

4. 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) Decapitated heads.
(c) Pairs of bloated, purple feet.
(d) Hands with fingers cut off.

5. Who is the first character readers meet at the start of "Moonlit Landscape with Bridge"?
(a) The Marlboro Man.
(b) Ari.
(c) Elena.
(d) The Minister of Interior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Minister tell Ari to stop when they see a group outside the municipal building?

2. Who could Elena be "easily mistaken" (3) for as the Minister holds her while his driver waits for him?

3. What does the Minister call Elena?

4. Why was the devastation outside unsurprising to the Minister when he first left his house with Ari?

5. What does Elena twist in her hands as she talks to the Minister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Minister think of when he looks at Elena's body and face?

2. Why does the Minister feel he must give money to the man who begs him to helps his family?

3. How does the Minister lose his shoe when he exits the vehicle to give the people outside the municipal building water?

4. What of the Minister and Elena's past does he think of while holding her as she cries?

5. Who is Elena?

6. What example does the Minister use to who what he believes is wrong with "the Christ doctrine" (4)?

7. What happens when the minister tries to save a woman from getting hit with a sack of food?

8. Describe the room the Minister is in at the start of the story. Why is it like this?

9. In what way is the Minister's wife trying to turn the present crisis into an opportunity?

10. Why is Ari unable to rely on the GPS to get them to the airport?

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