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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Makina says that the language she hears in the U.S. contains both ancient memory and what other trait?
(a) The meanings of a generation yet to be born.
(b) The wonderment of a new people.
(c) The fear of the culture that is already replacing that ancient world.
(d) The losses of the present generation.

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

3. What kind of machines are working at the place Makina arrives at, which her brother had gone to see?
(a) Construction machines.
(b) Excavators.
(c) Paving machines.
(d) Drilling rigs.

4. What does the light look like in the sky when Makina arrives at the address?
(a) Yellow storm clouds.
(b) Drying blood.
(c) Pink flowers.
(d) Gray with snow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinguishes Makina’s travel from one city to another?

2. What does the old man say the point of baseball is?

3. Where does Chucho tell Makina the pickup is, that will take her she wants to go?

4. Which statue does Makina need to look for next?

5. What does Makina find when she arrives at the land her brother had gone to see?

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