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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the four places with the same name does Makina want?
(a) The one with the canal.
(b) The one with the park.
(c) The one with the bridge.
(d) The one with the tower.

2. What does Chucho tell Makina about the rancher who stops them?
(a) That he has a business reporting immigrants.
(b) That he will get paid for their scalps.
(c) That he is one of the people who think they are above the law.
(d) That he will sell them as slaves if he can.

3. What does Makina say people are doing when they combine languages?
(a) Making the world happen anew.
(b) Returning to their roots.
(c) Marrying cultures.
(d) Re-domesticating human experience.

4. How does Makina characterize the shift in the people’s language in America?
(a) Self-defensive.
(b) Nurturing.
(c) Assertive.
(d) Defiant.

5. What does Makina think the folding chairs look like, at the stadium?
(a) Burial mounds.
(b) Grave stones.
(c) Aztec temples.
(d) An obsidian mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the people in the anglogaggle appear to Makina?

2. Who tells Makina to go clean up before she gives anyone the package?

3. What happens when Makina finally arrives at the correct street?

4. What did the man-who-struck-it-rich not have, which kept him from impressing Makina the way he had planned?

5. Makina says that the language she hears in the U.S. contains both ancient memory and what other trait?

(see the answer key)

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