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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Makina say is called for, when she refuses the pulque the bartender brings out?
(a) Contrition.
(b) Negotiation.
(c) Insolence.
(d) Insults.

2. Makina says that the language she hears in the U.S. contains both ancient memory and what other trait?
(a) The meanings of a generation yet to be born.
(b) The wonderment of a new people.
(c) The fear of the culture that is already replacing that ancient world.
(d) The losses of the present generation.

3. What does Mr. Double-U offer Makina?
(a) A job for her brother.
(b) A gift for her mother.
(c) A man to transport her across to the other side.
(d) A man who will take her to her brother.

4. How does Makina characterize the places she arrives at, and keeps going to?
(a) Teeming cities.
(b) Bleak tundras.
(c) Plastic crowds.
(d) Empty pits.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the four places with the same name does Makina want?

2. What does the old man say the point of baseball is?

3. What does Mr. P offer Makina?

4. What does Makina tell her younger sister about men who have filthy mouths?

5. What does Makina see as a good omen, when she gets across the river?

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