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

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Marlboro Man say he helped build?

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

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

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 word does the Marlboro Man use to describe the Prime Minister?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. 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?

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

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

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

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

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