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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Makina do when she realizes she has made a mistake in recognizing her brother?
(a) Collects herself without anyone noticing
(b) Covers her error with laughter.
(c) Falls over.
(d) Steadies herself against the desk.

2. Why does Makina not react immediately when the boy harasses her?
(a) She is afraid of him.
(b) She is not used to being treated this way.
(c) She does not want to make a scene.
(d) She knows Mr. Aitch will be angry.

3. What does Makina think the folding chairs look like, at the stadium?
(a) Aztec temples.
(b) An obsidian mountain.
(c) Grave stones.
(d) Burial mounds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the light look like in the sky when Makina arrives at the address?

2. How does Makina characterize the places she arrives at, and keeps going to?

3. What does Makina say her countrymen are armed with?

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

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

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