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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 is it about Makina’s boyfriend’s behavior that inspires respect in her?
(a) His devotion.
(b) His adoration.
(c) His restraint.
(d) His patience.

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

3. What is Mr. Aitch doing when Makina arrives?
(a) Having a meal.
(b) Having a sauna.
(c) Reading the paper.
(d) Playing dominoes.

4. What does the family do when Makina’s brother returns?
(a) Leave town and reinvent themselves.
(b) Accuse him of identity theft.
(c) Make arrangements to send him to school.
(d) Adopt him into the family formally.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Makina feel as she makes her way through the mountains?

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

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

4. What does the narrator say had happened to whatever had been in this place previously?

5. What is the advantage of a polyglot language, in Makina’s eyes?

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