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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 recall he and the Prime Minister doing "to young thugs who could not even spell their own names" (10)?
(a) Giving them guns.
(b) Finding them jobs.
(c) Tutoring them.
(d) Beating them up.

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

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

4. What word does the Marlboro Man mispronounce while the Minister walks down the tarmac?
(a) Bon Voyage.
(b) Ciao.
(c) Aloha.
(d) Adios.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man tell the Minister is disappointing after the Minister says he knows the man will kill them?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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 go to the airport?

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

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