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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Makina characterize new ways of saying things?
(a) As transformations of the old world.
(b) As degradation of pure languages.
(c) As new things themselves.
(d) As prophesies of a new world.

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

3. What is Makina’s brother told he will be doing, by taking this job?
(a) Earning his keep.
(b) Assuring his immortality.
(c) Saving his country.
(d) Saving a family.

4. Who is in the group Makina is forced to join after finding her brother?
(a) Men on their knees in a vacant lot.
(b) Immigrants fleeing from the cops.
(c) Visitors being expelled from the base.
(d) Bystanders being arrested.

5. What does Makina say she wants to do when the man tells her that the family who lived there moved?
(a) Kill someone.
(b) Go to Europe.
(c) Go home.
(d) Hang herself from a lamp post.

6. What is the first soldier Makina meets doing when she asks for her brother?
(a) Reviewing a report.
(b) Filing his nails.
(c) Talking on the phone.
(d) Reading.

7. What does the light look like in the sky when Makina arrives at the address?
(a) Yellow storm clouds.
(b) Drying blood.
(c) Pink flowers.
(d) Gray with snow.

8. What did the family expect Makina’s brother to do for them?
(a) Serve out a year’s enlistment.
(b) Fight in a foreign war.
(c) Learn to fly helicopters.
(d) Die in battle.

9. What does the woman tell Makina about her brother’s condition when he showed up?
(a) He was broke and angry.
(b) He was confused and homesick.
(c) He was sick as a dog.
(d) He was proud and standoffish.

10. What does Makina say people are doing when they combine languages?
(a) Re-domesticating human experience.
(b) Making the world happen anew.
(c) Marrying cultures.
(d) Returning to their roots.

11. Where is Makina, in her dream, when she is evicted from the ATM booth?
(a) Back in her home.
(b) In a cave with her brother.
(c) In the eighth circle of hell.
(d) On top of the eighth hill.

12. Where do Makina and her brother talk when she first finds him?
(a) In the hallway.
(b) In the street.
(c) In the park.
(d) In the closet.

13. How many times does Makina think she has arrived, only to find out that she has to keep going?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

14. What kind of machines are working at the place Makina arrives at, which her brother had gone to see?
(a) Excavators.
(b) Drilling rigs.
(c) Construction machines.
(d) Paving machines.

15. What do Makina and her brother do before they speak when she first finds him?
(a) Stare at each other.
(b) Cry.
(c) Ponder.
(d) Run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Makina’s brother eat until he recovered after discovering there was nothing at the land he had gone to see?

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

3. How does Makina’s brother answer when she asks if he got hurt?

4. How long does it take for Makina to realize that she has made a mistake in regard to recognizing her brother?

5. Why does Makina not want to call the cops for help?

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