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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 is Makina seduced by, in the city?
(a) The colorful buildings.
(b) The smells from restaurants.
(c) The sound of musicians.
(d) The powerful policemen.

2. Why does Makina not react immediately when the boy harasses her?
(a) She knows Mr. Aitch will be angry.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) She does not want to make a scene.
(d) She is not used to being treated this way.

3. How are Makina’s countrymen different here?
(a) More begging.
(b) Less whistling.
(c) More singing.
(d) Less restraint.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old man say the point of baseball is?

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

3. What does Mr. Aitch’s driver do when Makina takes out the package?

4. What is Mr. P patting while he talks with Makina?

5. Where does Makina meet Mr. Q?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Makina’s river crossing like?

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

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

6. Why does Cora send Makina to talk to the top dogs?

7. Who is Makina?

8. What arrangement does Mr. Double-U make for Makina?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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