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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 man tell Ari he gave up long ago?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Driving.
(c) Killing.
(d) Women.

2. How old is the Minister of Interior?
(a) Late 30s.
(b) Late 70s.
(c) Mid-60s.
(d) Early 50s.

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

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

5. What does the Minister say to the man after he has pulled him into the car with Ari?
(a) He tells him he made a grave error.
(b) He thanks him for his help.
(c) He introduces him to Ari.
(d) He tells him he looks familiar.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister doing "to young thugs who could not even spell their own names" (10)?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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 say happens to all ungrateful children in the end?

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

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

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

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