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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 Ari do as he drives the Minister and the man who got into the car with them?
(a) Sings to the radio.
(b) Calls the cops.
(c) Stares ahead in silence.
(d) Cries.

2. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?
(a) Their hair is shorter.
(b) Their bellies are bigger.
(c) They are far more educated.
(d) They have much more money.

3. What does the Minister say to the Marlboro Man when he tries to say the two are similar?
(a) He agrees with him.
(b) The Minister says that the Man is far more noble than he is.
(c) He tells him he is insane.
(d) The Minister says that he should have been arrested with the man.

4. 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 man told him he is not from the Red Cross.
(c) He does not have a Red Cross I.D.
(d) The Red Cross no longer exists.

5. What does the Marlboro Man say he helped build?
(a) The church.
(b) The municipal building.
(c) The airport.
(d) The Minister's house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long has the Marlboro Man been in prison before he is able to escape?

3. What word does the Marlboro Man mispronounce while the Minister walks down the tarmac?

4. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?

5. What does the Marlboro Man tell the Minister that the Prime Minister, whom he says took all the glory, really was?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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