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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 phrase is used to describe the way the Minister believes his household staff will behave once he leaves the house?
(a) Angels in heaven.
(b) Animals in a zoo.
(c) Flies on excrement.
(d) Beasts upon carrion.

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

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

4. What does the Minister yell out when he arrives on the scene at the municipal building?
(a) Get away!
(b) Join me!
(c) Water!
(d) I'm here!

5. What does man ask the Minister to do when he first arrives at the municipal building?
(a) Help his family.
(b) Leave them alone.
(c) Rebuild their city.
(d) Take him to Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Minister thinks Elena's "pious sincerity" is "as much a memento of his village" (2) as what?

2. Where will the Minister of Interior's driver take him?

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

4. What phrase is used to describe the way the suits are laid out at the start of "Moonlit Landscape with Bridge"?

5. What is happening when the Minister gets knocked to the ground outside of the church?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who helps the Minister to his feet when he falls amidst the crowd outside the church? What does the Minister find suspect about this person?

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

6. Who is Elena?

7. What is the Minister trying to choose at the start of the story?

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

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

10. What does the Minister want Ari to do when they see a crowd of people outside the municipal building?

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