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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Makina say people are doing when they combine languages?
(a) Marrying cultures.
(b) Re-domesticating human experience.
(c) Returning to their roots.
(d) Making the world happen anew.

3. What does the narrator say is brimming in the immigrants’ language?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Powerlessness.
(c) Patience.
(d) Grief.

4. What did Makina help Mr. Q with a few years ago?
(a) Mayoral politics.
(b) Recovering his money.
(c) Hiding him from his enemies.
(d) Getting him elected.

5. It is one thing to make exceptions, Makina says, but it is another to do what?
(a) Reinvent the rules.
(b) Change the rules.
(c) Ignore the rules.
(d) Break the rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Makina surprised by the man who opens the door at the address the woman from the restaurant gave her?

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

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

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

5. What color paint dominates the city Makina gets to after passing through the mountains?

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