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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 she wants to do when the man tells her that the family who lived there moved?
(a) Kill someone.
(b) Go home.
(c) Go to Europe.
(d) Hang herself from a lamp post.

2. Who does Makina think when her acquaintance recognizes her?
(a) That she must look terrible.
(b) That she must be filthy.
(c) That she is very hungry.
(d) That she must still inspire fear.

3. What does the woman tell Makina about her brother’s condition when he showed up?
(a) He was confused and homesick.
(b) He was proud and standoffish.
(c) He was broke and angry.
(d) He was sick as a dog.

4. What would Makina’s brother keep at the end of the deployment?
(a) His military gear.
(b) The family’s house.
(c) The person’s identity.
(d) The person’s books.

5. What does the man at the land her brother had gone to tell Makina was there from the beginning?
(a) A river.
(b) A forest.
(c) A town.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Makina characterize the places she arrives at, and keeps going to?

2. What does Makina’s brother say when Makina asks about the land?

3. Why had this person joined the army?

4. What does the family do when Makina’s brother returns?

5. After the boy takes Makina inside the restaurant, he introduces her to a woman. Who does the woman remind Makina of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Makina find at the address she has been traveling toward?

2. How does Makina say she found her brother?

3. What is Makina’s reaction when she sees her brother?

4. Why does Makina’s brother say he did not return after the land fiasco?

5. What is it about the people she meets in the city that excites Makina?

6. What drives Makina to take shelter in an ATM booth?

7. What does Makina’s brother say happened to him after he went to the land?

8. What does Makina think she will do if they tell her bad news?

9. How does the narrator describe Makina's transition from one city to the next?

10. Who does Makina find at the address she gets from the restaurant?

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