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

2. What does the narrator say affected Makina for the first time with this sinkhole?
(a) Grief over her losses.
(b) The prophecies about the end of the world.
(c) Industrial accidents.
(d) The earth’s insanity.

3. Why does Makina pack light?
(a) She knows the top dogs’ men will take care of her.
(b) She is planning to come right back.
(c) She is planning to start a new life on the other side.
(d) She knows people along the way.

4. What did Makina help Mr. Q with a few years ago?
(a) Hiding him from his enemies.
(b) Getting him elected.
(c) Recovering his money.
(d) Mayoral politics.

5. What does Makina say her countrymen are armed with?
(a) Work.
(b) Knives.
(c) Guns.
(d) Connections to top dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these things does the sinkhole swallow?

2. What do the signs say, that Makina sees in the city after passing through the mountains?

3. What does Makina say to herself when the ground lurches, at the beginning of the book?

4. Where does Chucho tell Makina the pickup is, that will take her she wants to go?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Makina handle the harassment she faces on the bus?

2. How does the narrator describe the city Makina arrives in?

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

4. What makes Makina impatient to finish the errand her mother has given her?

5. How does the old man explain the game of baseball to Makina?

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

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

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

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

10. What is Makina’s impression of the people she sees in the city?

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