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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What shape does the sinkhole take when it is done sinking?
(a) A narrow horizontal cavern.
(b) A long oval.
(c) A wide tear.
(d) A perfect circle.

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

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

5. How does Makina say the people in the anglogaggle react to the machines at the self-checkout?
(a) They struggle to hide the fact that they are interacting with robots.
(b) They seem drugged by the voices.
(c) They are shocked by the bleeping.
(d) They act as if the machines are people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the sinkhole already swallowed?

2. What does Mr. Aitch wait to do, before he gives Makina the thing he wants her to deliver?

3. Who is guarding Mr. Double-U?

4. What does Makina drink with Mr. Q?

5. How does Makina travel to the bus station?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of relationship does Makina have with her boyfriend?

2. Who is Makina?

3. What slang does Makina use, and what is its effect?

4. What is Makina’s trip through the mountains like?

5. What is Mr. Q’s style of speaking like?

6. What is the obsidian mound that gives this chapter its name?

7. What danger does Makina face in making her trip?

8. How does the narrator say things went for the man who tried to teach Makina a lesson in public?

9. Who do Makina and Chucho encounter on their trip from the river in Chapter 3, and how do they escape from this person?

10. What does Makina think is killing her when the novel opens?

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