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

2. Where does the Minister tell Ari to stop the second time while they are heading to the airport?
(a) A library.
(b) A church.
(c) His old office.
(d) The police station.

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

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

5. What does the Minister tell Elena was "a wicked lie in the foreign press" (2)?
(a) That the Minister refused to send aid.
(b) That they were unprepared.
(c) That the Minister was running away.
(d) That they set the storm in motion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Minister appreciate about Elena?

2. What word does the Minister use when describing "these weather events" (2) to Elena?

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?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Elena?

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

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

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

5. Why is Elena unable to contact her children?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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