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

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

3. How are Ari and the man described as the Minister thinks of being stuck in the car with them "on the way to his own execution" (7)?
(a) A pragmatist and a rebel.
(b) An intellect and a thug.
(c) A devotee and a sinner.
(d) A lunatic and a coward.

4. What does the Marlboro Man tell the Minister he is a student of?
(a) Human nature.
(b) History.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Philosophy.

5. What does the Minister realize as a group of aids guide him down the tarmac?
(a) He forgot his suitcase.
(b) He set the Marlboro Man free.
(c) He did not say goodbye to Ari.
(d) He does not want to see his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the Minister of Interior?

2. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Marlboro Man say he wants to go to the airport?

2. What does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister doing to “young thugs” from surrounding villages for their efforts?

3. Why does the Marlboro Man suggest to the Minister the storm was good luck for him?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does the Marlboro Man say he wants to be dropped off near women at the airport?

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

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