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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Makina meet Mr. Aitch?
(a) At the bus station.
(b) At the Turkish Baths.
(c) At the Pulquería Raskolnikova.
(d) At the Casino.

2. What does Mr. Aitch ask Makina to deliver to Mr. P.?
(a) A note.
(b) A sealed box.
(c) A small bundle.
(d) A check.

3. What is Makina nervous about when she travels to the end of the world?
(a) Being soul-lost.
(b) Being financially-lost.
(c) Being disappeared-lost.
(d) Being disoriented-lost.

4. It is one thing to make exceptions, Makina says, but it is another to do what?
(a) Change the rules.
(b) Break the rules.
(c) Ignore the rules.
(d) Reinvent the rules.

5. How does Makina say the people look when they leave the supermarket and return to the street?
(a) Joyous.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Wooden.
(d) Blithe.

6. How does Makina avoid being drowned when their inner tube flips in the river?
(a) She floats on her back.
(b) She lashes herself to the inner tube.
(c) She stops struggling.
(d) She kicks till she reaches land.

7. Who tells Makina to go clean up before she gives anyone the package?
(a) An old woman in a restaurant.
(b) Mr. Aitch’s driver.
(c) The boy from the bus.
(d) An old man at a flower shop.

8. Who is guarding the door at Mr. Aitch’s place?
(a) There is no guard.
(b) A glacial guard.
(c) A goon with a gat.
(d) A kid Makina shucked.

9. What does the narrator say it feels like like to be around Cora?
(a) Being lost.
(b) Being a child again.
(c) Sitting on her lap.
(d) Having your thoughts a million miles away.

10. What does Chucho tell Makina about the rancher who stops them?
(a) That he is one of the people who think they are above the law.
(b) That he will get paid for their scalps.
(c) That he will sell them as slaves if he can.
(d) That he has a business reporting immigrants.

11. After crossing the river, what did Makina do in the cabin while the Anglo man is waiting outside?
(a) Write a note home.
(b) Dispose of possessions that would encumber her.
(c) Abandon her backpack.
(d) Change out of her wet clothes.

12. What is Makina’s job at home?
(a) She is a cook.
(b) She is a teacher.
(c) She takes care of children.
(d) She runs the local switchboard.

13. What does Makina say about the food, which she knows is not true?
(a) That all cooking is Mexican.
(b) That she could live here.
(c) That American food is a lie.
(d) That life was better at home.

14. What does Makina say to herself when the ground lurches, at the beginning of the book?
(a) "This isn’t happening."
(b) "Here it comes."
(c) "I’m not going to die here."
(d) "I’m dead."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Makina say to the people who are swallowed by the sinkhole?

2. The thing Makina sees once she is across the rive is not, in fact, a good omen: What is it?

3. What role had Mr. Aitch played in Makina’s brother’s departure?

4. When someone from Makina’s town struck it rich and came back, how did he try to impress Makina?

5. What does Makina think the folding chairs look like, at the stadium?

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