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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 family expect Makina’s brother to do for them?
(a) Learn to fly helicopters.
(b) Fight in a foreign war.
(c) Die in battle.
(d) Serve out a year’s enlistment.

2. What does Mr. Aitch’s driver do when Makina takes out the package?
(a) Takes it to a man in a market.
(b) Refuses to take it.
(c) Throws it away.
(d) Takes it and keeps it.

3. The thing Makina sees once she is across the rive is not, in fact, a good omen: What is it?
(a) A vulture circling.
(b) A storm coming.
(c) Police coming to arrest her.
(d) A swollen corpse.

4. What does the old man say the point of baseball is?
(a) To colonize the bases.
(b) To get home.
(c) To run.
(d) To steal.

5. What does the cop tell Makina to do?
(a) Change her clothes.
(b) Run.
(c) Surrender her possessions.
(d) Ask permission for anything she wants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Makina’s brother say happened after he went to the land?

2. At what time of day does Makina arrive at the address she is looking for?

3. What traits make the people’s language in America similar to Makina herself?

4. What does Makina hear as soon as she leaves the army base?

5. What do the signs say, that Makina sees in the city after passing through the mountains?

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