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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 would happen if Makina’s brother died during the time at war?
(a) His family would not get anything.
(b) They would bring his sister to America and give her citizenship.
(c) They would send money to his family.
(d) They would will the land to his family.

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

3. What does Makina find when she arrives at the land her brother had gone to see?
(a) A busy marketplace.
(b) A city intersection.
(c) A vacant lot.
(d) Sheer emptiness.

4. What does the narrator say had happened to whatever had been in this place previously?
(a) It was systematically destroyed.
(b) It dried out till it was ash.
(c) It was pulled up by its roots.
(d) It was burned to a cinder.

5. Why did Makina’s brother not return home?
(a) He was curious to stay.
(b) He was too ashamed.
(c) He had forgotten the way.
(d) He owed too much money to dangerous men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language is the Latin tongue, in Makina’s view?

2. Where do Makina and her brother talk when she first finds him?

3. What would Makina’s brother keep at the end of the deployment?

4. What is the advantage of a polyglot language, in Makina’s eyes?

5. What does Makina’s brother say his experience of war mostly consisted of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Makina find the boy from the bus?

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