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

2. What "sentence from a previous existence" (2) does the Minister say aloud while alone in his room at the start of the story?
(a) Peace be with you.
(b) So it goes.
(c) Adios, amigo.
(d) God bless us all.

3. What did the Minister of Interior's wife call the room in which he stands at the start of the story?
(a) The library.
(b) The salon.
(c) The cafe.
(d) The spa.

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

5. What does the Minister realize has happened to him when the man lifts him up amidst the crowd outside the church?
(a) He urinated himself.
(b) He has gone blind.
(c) Ari left him.
(d) He has broken his elbow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Minister tell Elena he will do once settled with his wife and family?

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

3. In addition to the crowd, what other people are at the church where the Minister stops to urinate?

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

5. Who appears in the doorway as Elena weeps before the Minister?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. Who is Elena?

8. Why is Elena unable to contact her children?

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

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

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