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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 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 introduces him to Ari.
(c) He tells him he looks familiar.
(d) He thanks him for his help.

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

3. What does the Minister tell the Marlboro Man will happen to him once they reach the airport?
(a) He will be arrested.
(b) Ari will bring him back to the church.
(c) He will be executed.
(d) He will be taken to Paris.

4. Who does the man say gave him the nickname The Marlboro Man?
(a) The Minister's wife.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) Elena.
(d) The Minister of Interior.

5. What types of tales did Elena tell the Minister's children when they were young?
(a) Tales of elves and fairies.
(b) Tales of the Devil as a young man.
(c) Tales of Jesus as a young man.
(d) Tales of the apocalypse.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the Minister know the man in the car is not from the Red Cross?

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 say he wants to go to the airport?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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