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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 & Translator's note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the advantage of a polyglot language, in Makina’s eyes?
(a) It lives closer to the heart.
(b) It tells you new things.
(c) It belongs to the people, not the academics.
(d) It includes more people.

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

3. What has Makina forgotten when she arrives at the bottom of the stairs?
(a) How to say verse in an any other language.
(b) How to ask for directions in Spanish.
(c) How to say thank you in English.
(d) How to say her own name.

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

5. What does Makina say is a "slippery bitch" (11)?
(a) The earth.
(b) The river.
(c) The city.
(d) The old mine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the room Makina enters from the bottom of the stairs?

2. What does the man at the land her brother had gone to tell Makina was there from the beginning?

3. What did the person whose place Makina’s brother is taking ask him?

4. What is Makina seduced by, in the city?

5. What language is the Latin tongue, in Makina’s view?

(see the answer key)

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