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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 her countrymen are armed with?
(a) Connections to top dogs.
(b) Guns.
(c) Knives.
(d) Work.
2. When someone from Makina’s town struck it rich and came back, how did he try to impress Makina?
(a) By arriving in an expensive car.
(b) By flashing cash.
(c) By demonstrating a cell phone.
(d) By namedropping important men’s names.
3. What does Mr. Aitch wait to do, before he gives Makina the thing he wants her to deliver?
(a) Swear an oath.
(b) Knock back her drink.
(c) Kiss his ring.
(d) Give him some information.
4. What is Mr. P patting while he talks with Makina?
(a) A gun.
(b) His heart.
(c) A stack of money.
(d) A knife.
5. How does Makina’s gunshot wound feel when she washes up?
(a) It throbs but bearably.
(b) It is hot and sore.
(c) It barely stings.
(d) It feels like bees stung her.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Makina help Mr. Q with a few years ago?
2. What does Makina say about the food, which she knows is not true?
3. What did the man-who-struck-it-rich not have, which kept him from impressing Makina the way he had planned?
4. After crossing the river, what did Makina do in the cabin while the Anglo man is waiting outside?
5. Where does Makina meet Mr. Q?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Mr. Q’s style of speaking like?
2. What does Makina have to establish in her meetings with each of the three top dogs?
3. What is the obsidian mound that gives this chapter its name?
4. What slang does Makina use, and what is its effect?
5. What makes Makina impatient to finish the errand her mother has given her?
6. What does Makina say immigrants carried in their rucksacks?
7. What is Makina’s impression of the people she sees in the city?
8. What danger does Makina face in making her trip?
9. How does the old man explain the game of baseball to Makina?
10. What kind of omen does Makina think she sees in the beginning of Chapter 3?
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