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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 did Makina’s brother’s first note home say?
(a) "I have found the land, but it is nothing."
(b) "I haven’t found the land yet, but I will."
(c) "I am here on the land, waiting for you."
(d) "Please send money, I am broke."

2. How long does it take for Makina to realize that she has made a mistake in regard to recognizing her brother?
(a) A moment.
(b) A minute.
(c) Ten minutes.
(d) A few minutes.

3. What does the narrator say is brimming in the immigrants’ language?
(a) Grief.
(b) Powerlessness.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Patience.

4. What distinguishes Makina’s travel from one city to another?
(a) She does not leave an urban environment.
(b) She arrives surprisingly quickly.
(c) She has to take so many varieties of transportation to get there.
(d) She only knows she has arrived because people tell her so.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Makina think when her acquaintance recognizes her?

2. How does Makina’s brother indicate that he wants to leave to talk to her?

3. What kind of machines are working at the place Makina arrives at, which her brother had gone to see?

4. Who is in the group Makina is forced to join after finding her brother?

5. What effect does Makina’s writing have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the arresting cop tell Makina when he corrals her with the other immigrants?

2. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?

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

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

5. How does Makina free herself and the others who have been collected by the cop?

6. What does Makina learn about her brother from the old woman?

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

8. How does the narrator describe the boy whose place Makina’s brother took, in the army?

9. How does Makina’s brother describe his experience of war?

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

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