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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 author does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister reading in their youth?
(a) Vonnegut.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Salinger.

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

3. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?
(a) To a cafe.
(b) To church.
(c) To the airport.
(d) To a hotel.

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

5. What types of tales did Elena tell the Minister's children when they were young?
(a) Tales of elves and fairies.
(b) Tales of the Devil as a young man.
(c) Tales of the apocalypse.
(d) Tales of Jesus as a young man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Minister say to the Marlboro Man when he tries to say the two are similar?

2. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?

3. What is the only thing the Prime Minister reads in the present?

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

5. Why was the Marlboro Man given that nickname?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the Minister say happens to all ungrateful children in the end?

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

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

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

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

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

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