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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 not want to call the cops for help?
(a) Because her good fortune is measured by avoiding the cops.
(b) Because they will disappear her.
(c) Because they will deport her.
(d) Because they will know Mr. P and make trouble for her.

2. How does Makina characterize the places she arrives at, and keeps going to?
(a) Plastic crowds.
(b) Empty pits.
(c) Bleak tundras.
(d) Teeming cities.

3. What does Makina’s brother’s second note say?
(a) "Send money so I can come home."
(b) "I’m fine, I have a job."
(c) "I’m going to send money with my next letter."
(d) "I’m in danger, help."

4. What kind of machines are working at the place Makina arrives at, which her brother had gone to see?
(a) Drilling rigs.
(b) Paving machines.
(c) Construction machines.
(d) Excavators.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Makina finally arrives at the correct street?

2. What part of language is Makina’s brother teaching the fellow soldier who talks to him and Makina?

3. Which suburb does Makina need to visit next?

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

5. Where is Makina, in her dream, when she is evicted from the ATM booth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Makina learn about the job her brother took?

4. What kind of omen does the light in the sky give Makina when she arrives at the address?

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 Makina’s reaction when she sees her brother?

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

10. Who is the man who evicts Makina from the ATM booth?

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