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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 is the only thing the Prime Minister reads in the present?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Bank statements.
(c) Emails.
(d) Facebook posts.

2. What weapon does the man who said he was Red Cross use to frighten Ari?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A gun.
(c) A club.
(d) A knife.

3. How does the Minister know the man in the car is not from the Red Cross?
(a) His uniform is not a Red Cross uniform.
(b) The Red Cross no longer exists.
(c) He does not have a Red Cross I.D.
(d) The man told him he is not from the Red Cross.

4. What does the man tell the Minister is disappointing after the Minister says he knows the man will kill them?
(a) That the Minister was not prepared for the storm.
(b) That the Minister is running away.
(c) That the Minister relies on Ari to help him.
(d) That the Minister does not recognize the man.

5. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?
(a) Downtown.
(b) The forest.
(c) The reservoir.
(d) The old mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister reading in their youth?

2. What types of tales did Elena tell the Minister's children when they were young?

3. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?

4. What does the Minister tell the Marlboro Man will happen to him once they reach the airport?

5. What does the Marlboro Man do when they approach a checkpoint near the airport?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does the man tell the Minister had given him the nickname The Marlboro Man?

2. What is significant about what someone yells from the crowd, which catches the Minister's ear?

3. What does the Minister note about the way Ari pleads with the Marlboro Man?

4. In what way does the Marlboro Man say the Minister of Interior and the Prime Minister differ?

5. How long has the Marlboro Man been in jail? How did he get out?

6. What happens at the very end of the story just before the Minister gets on the plane?

7. Why does the man nudge the Minister as they pass a reservoir and asks if he has anything to say?

8. How does the man in the car threaten Ari? How does Ari react?

9. What does the Minister tell Ari when he and the man are in the car?

10. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man exits the car and enters the airport crowd? How does he feel about this?

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