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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 long has the Marlboro Man been in prison before he is able to escape?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 30 years.

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

3. What begins to happen just as the Minister reaches his plane at the end of the story?
(a) The plane begin to take off before the Minister gets on it.
(b) The airport floods.
(c) It starts to rain.
(d) It starts to snow.

4. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?
(a) He tells his aide to arrest him.
(b) He waves to the man.
(c) He ignores the man and says nothing.
(d) He yells the same phrase back at the man.

5. 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) Beating them up.
(c) Finding them jobs.
(d) Tutoring them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. Who is screaming the Minister's name as he walks down the tarmac with his aides at the end of the story?

4. What does Ari repeat over and over as he drives the man and the Minister?

5. What does the Minister say to the man after he has pulled him into the car with Ari?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the Minister react when he sees the Marlboro Man yelling to him, "You, too, are my brother" (11)? What happens as a result?

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

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

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

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

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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