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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. Where does Chucho tell Makina the pickup is, that will take her she wants to go?
(a) Just up the road.
(b) At a ranch.
(c) On the other side of a mountain.
(d) In a long valley.

2. Where is Makina when she hears the voice that stops her in her tracks?
(a) In the army base.
(b) In the marketplace.
(c) In the park.
(d) In the desert.

3. What does Makina find when she arrives at the land her brother had gone to see?
(a) A vacant lot.
(b) A city intersection.
(c) Sheer emptiness.
(d) A busy marketplace.

4. What pose does the man in the truck assume, after Makina surprises him?
(a) Looming bullying.
(b) Anxious jittering.
(c) Hard-boiled slouch.
(d) Nonchalant repose.

5. What does Makina say to herself when the ground lurches, at the beginning of the book?
(a) "Here it comes."
(b) "I’m dead."
(c) "This isn’t happening."
(d) "I’m not going to die here."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Makina’s brother told he will be doing, by taking this job?

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

3. What does Mr. Double-U offer Makina?

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

5. Whose place does Makina’s brother take in the army?

(see the answer key)

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