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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 & Translator's note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that keeps Makina going after leaving the army base?
(a) The rhythm of her body walking.
(b) The need to eat.
(c) The desire to be clean.
(d) The shame of having failed.

2. What traits make the people’s language in America similar to Makina herself?
(a) Durability, obduracy.
(b) Formlessness, potential.
(c) Intensity, passion.
(d) Malleability, permeability.

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

4. What des Makina say will have to happen in order for people here to have what they want?
(a) They will have to be displaced in turn.
(b) They will have to adopt the lost children.
(c) They will have to become strangers to themselves.
(d) They will have to change color and number.

5. What time of day is it when Chucho leaves Makina?
(a) Noon.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Dusk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Makina feel as she makes her way through the mountains?

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

3. What is Mr. P patting while he talks with Makina?

4. After the boy takes Makina inside the restaurant, he introduces her to a woman. Who does the woman remind Makina of?

5. Why does Makina pack light?

(see the answer key)

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