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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. Why does Makina feel guilty about making her trip?
(a) For leaving her switchboard.
(b) For having left her mother.
(c) For not having money to pay her way.
(d) For needing so much help.

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

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

4. Which of these things does the sinkhole swallow?
(a) The noonday sunshine.
(b) Screams of passersby.
(c) A flock of geese.
(d) A house and camper.

5. What does Mr. Aitch wait to do, before he gives Makina the thing he wants her to deliver?
(a) Kiss his ring.
(b) Swear an oath.
(c) Knock back her drink.
(d) Give him some information.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Makina say her countrymen are armed with?

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

3. How does Makina say Mr. P’s men look?

4. What does Mr. Double-U offer Makina?

5. What does Makina say Mr. Q has never been known to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What has Makina brought with her on her trip to the other side?

6. What does Makina say immigrants carried in their rucksacks?

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

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

9. What kind of omen does Makina think she sees in the beginning of Chapter 3?

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

(see the answer keys)

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