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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the person whose place Makina’s brother is taking ask him?
(a) How much money he needed.
(b) Whether he was scared.
(c) Why he would agree to such a thing.
(d) What his hometown was like.

2. When someone from Makina’s town struck it rich and came back, how did he try to impress Makina?
(a) By namedropping important men’s names.
(b) By demonstrating a cell phone.
(c) By arriving in an expensive car.
(d) By flashing cash.

3. What does Makina say she wants to do when the man tells her that the family who lived there moved?
(a) Hang herself from a lamp post.
(b) Go to Europe.
(c) Kill someone.
(d) Go home.

4. How does the old woman describe Makina’s brother?
(a) Content.
(b) Blithe.
(c) Sad.
(d) Restless.

5. What language is the Latin tongue, in Makina’s view?
(a) Mayan.
(b) Spanish.
(c) English.
(d) Incan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say it feels like like to be around Cora?

2. How did Makina handle the man-who-struck-it-rich's failure?

3. What is it about Makina’s boyfriend’s behavior that inspires respect in her?

4. How many times does Makina think she has arrived, only to find out that she has to keep going?

5. What does Mr. P offer Makina?

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