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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 Mr. Double-U offer Makina?
(a) A gift for her mother.
(b) A man who will take her to her brother.
(c) A job for her brother.
(d) A man to transport her across to the other side.

2. How did Makina handle the man-who-struck-it-rich's failure?
(a) She called his mother and asked her to come get him.
(b) She laughed at him contemptuously in front of his friends.
(c) She kissed him on the cheek and wished him better luck next time.
(d) She called the police to have him taken away.

3. Why did Makina’s brother not answer this person's question?
(a) He refused to condescend to answer.
(b) He felt so much pity he was angry.
(c) He did not have enough of the language.
(d) He refused to give the person an advantage by answering.

4. How does Makina’s brother answer when she asks if he got hurt?
(a) He says that he was wounded once and recovered.
(b) He says that he was only ever grazed lightly by shrapnel or bullets.
(c) He says that he was wounded badly and has never healed.
(d) He says that he did not get a scratch.

5. What does the narrator say had happened to whatever had been in this place previously?
(a) It dried out till it was ash.
(b) It was burned to a cinder.
(c) It was systematically destroyed.
(d) It was pulled up by its roots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would happen if Makina’s brother died during the time at war?

2. What pose does the man in the truck assume, after Makina surprises him?

3. Why does Makina feel guilty about making her trip?

4. When did Makina first meet Mr. Double-U?

5. How did Chucho recognize Makina?

(see the answer key)

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