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

2. After the boy takes Makina inside the restaurant, he introduces her to a woman. Who does the woman remind Makina of?
(a) Cora.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) The boy on the bus.

3. What does Makina’s brother say typically initiated periods of activity for him and his fellow soldiers?
(a) One of his homeys would be shot.
(b) A bomb would be thrown into the compound.
(c) There was no regularity to the periods of activity.
(d) A higher-up would decide it was time for a campaign.

4. What does Makina see as a good omen, when she gets across the river?
(a) Cars coming up the road.
(b) A pregnant woman’s belly.
(c) The sun breaking through.
(d) A bird overhead.

5. What did Makina’s brother expect to get in return for taking this person’s place in the army?
(a) American citizenship.
(b) A new car.
(c) A plot of land.
(d) A large sum of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the people in the anglogaggle appear to Makina?

2. What does Makina find surprising about the room at the bottom of the stairs?

3. What did the person whose place Makina’s brother is taking ask him?

4. What has Makina forgotten when she arrives at the bottom of the stairs?

5. What does Makina’s brother say made him confident about taking this job?

(see the answer key)

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