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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) Mimic drinking from a glass.
(c) Drop their jaws and point inside their mouths.
(d) Stick out their tongues and pant.

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

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

4. Which type of religious person does the Minister say will agonize over what a beggar might do with his money rather than just giving it to him?
(a) Buddhist.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Christian.
(d) Jew.

5. How long had it been since the Minister had left the house when he leaves with Ari?
(a) 6 hours.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Minister appreciate about Elena?

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

3. What religion does Ari say he follows?

4. What does Ari tell the Minister will happen if they stop the car a second time while on the way to the airport?

5. What does the crowd do when the Minister begins to remove the crates of water from his trunk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Elena unable to contact her children?

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

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

7. Where does Ari stop for the Minister when he has to use the bathroom? Who else is there?

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

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