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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 the family expect Makina’s brother to do for them?
(a) Die in battle.
(b) Serve out a year’s enlistment.
(c) Learn to fly helicopters.
(d) Fight in a foreign war.

2. Where does Makina hear a voice she recognizes?
(a) In a restaurant.
(b) In the abyss.
(c) In the marketplace.
(d) On the bus.

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

4. What part of language is Makina’s brother teaching the fellow soldier who talks to him and Makina?
(a) The past tense.
(b) The optative mood.
(c) The future tense.
(d) The conditional tense.

5. What is the advantage of a polyglot language, in Makina’s eyes?
(a) It tells you new things.
(b) It includes more people.
(c) It belongs to the people, not the academics.
(d) It lives closer to the heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the light look like in the sky when Makina arrives at the address?

2. What does the cop tell Makina to do?

3. What do Makina and her brother do before they speak when she first finds him?

4. Which statue does Makina need to look for next?

5. What kind of language do Mexicans speak on the other side?

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

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

6. What happened when Makina’s brother came back from the war?

7. What kind of marriage ceremony does Makina encounter on her way to the army base?

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

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

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

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