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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 write on after a cop tells her to do something?
(a) A scrap she caught in the wind.
(b) The arrest warrant the cop gave her.
(c) The note she meant to take to her brother.
(d) Pages torn out of a poetry book.

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

3. What does Mr. Aitch’s driver do when Makina takes out the package?
(a) Takes it and keeps it.
(b) Throws it away.
(c) Takes it to a man in a market.
(d) Refuses to take it.

4. What does the man at the land her brother had gone to tell Makina was there from the beginning?
(a) A forest.
(b) A river.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Makina and her brother do before they speak when she first finds him?

2. What does Makina’s brother say when Makina asks about the land?

3. What would Makina’s brother keep at the end of the deployment?

4. How does the old woman describe Makina’s brother?

5. What is the weather like in the mountains?

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