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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. Who is guarding Mr. Double-U?
(a) Goons with guns.
(b) A boy Makina has had relations with.
(c) A black man with a badge.
(d) A solitary silent man.

2. How does Makina describe the sun after she leaves the army base?
(a) Ashen.
(b) Adamantine.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Liquid.

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

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

5. What does the narrator say affected Makina for the first time with this sinkhole?
(a) The prophecies about the end of the world.
(b) Industrial accidents.
(c) Grief over her losses.
(d) The earth’s insanity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Makina say the people in the anglogaggle react to the machines at the self-checkout?

3. How does Makina describe her reaction to this place?

4. How much time elapses before Makina feels better at the end of the story?

5. What does Makina say is called for, when she refuses the pulque the bartender brings out?

(see the answer key)

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