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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 word does the Marlboro Man use to describe the Prime Minister?
(a) Sissy.
(b) Snob.
(c) Dimwit.
(d) Toughguy.

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

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

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

5. 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) Cries.
(c) Stares ahead in silence.
(d) Calls the cops.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why was the Marlboro Man given that nickname?

4. What does the Minister realize as a group of aids guide him down the tarmac?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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