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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Makina say Mr. P’s men look?
(a) Deadly serious.
(b) Competitive and mean.
(c) Light-hearted and joyful.
(d) Bored and violent.

3. Which statue does Makina need to look for next?
(a) An old man thinking.
(b) A general on a horse.
(c) A man in a frock coat.
(d) A bear dancing.

4. Where does Makina find Mr. Double-U?
(a) In the train station.
(b) In the Turkish baths.
(c) At his restaurant.
(d) In his office.

5. How are Makina’s countrymen different here?
(a) More singing.
(b) Less restraint.
(c) More begging.
(d) Less whistling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is brimming in the immigrants’ language?

2. What sound does the narrator say the earth makes when the sinkhole opens?

3. What does the man at the land her brother had gone to tell Makina was there from the beginning?

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

5. What does the narrator say affected Makina for the first time with this sinkhole?

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