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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Makina first meet Mr. Double-U?
(a) When he was a guest in her house.
(b) When he presided over a public festival.
(c) When he was in prison.
(d) When he was in hiding.

2. Why does Makina pack light?
(a) She is planning to come right back.
(b) She knows the top dogs’ men will take care of her.
(c) She is planning to start a new life on the other side.
(d) She knows people along the way.

3. What does Makina say about the food, which she knows is not true?
(a) That American food is a lie.
(b) That all cooking is Mexican.
(c) That life was better at home.
(d) That she could live here.

4. What does the narrator say it feels like like to be around Cora?
(a) Being lost.
(b) Sitting on her lap.
(c) Being a child again.
(d) Having your thoughts a million miles away.

5. What role had Mr. Aitch played in Makina’s brother’s departure?
(a) He sent him into exile.
(b) He captured him and took him away for a job.
(c) He told him where to go.
(d) He sent him away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Aitch wait to do, before he gives Makina the thing he wants her to deliver?

2. It is one thing to make exceptions, Makina says, but it is another to do what?

3. What does Makina say Mr. Q has never been known to do?

4. Which of these things does the sinkhole swallow?

5. Where does Makina meet Mr. Aitch?

(see the answer key)

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