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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After crossing the river, what did Makina do in the cabin while the Anglo man is waiting outside?
(a) Write a note home.
(b) Dispose of possessions that would encumber her.
(c) Change out of her wet clothes.
(d) Abandon her backpack.

2. 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.

3. It is one thing to make exceptions, Makina says, but it is another to do what?
(a) Break the rules.
(b) Change the rules.
(c) Ignore the rules.
(d) Reinvent the rules.

4. How many languages does Makina speak?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

5. What role had Mr. Aitch played in Makina’s brother’s departure?
(a) He captured him and took him away for a job.
(b) He sent him into exile.
(c) He told him where to go.
(d) He sent him away.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What distinguishes Makina’s travel from one city to another?

4. How are Makina’s countrymen different here?

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

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