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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 & Translator's note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Makina write on after a cop tells her to do something?
(a) A scrap she caught in the wind.
(b) Pages torn out of a poetry book.
(c) The note she meant to take to her brother.
(d) The arrest warrant the cop gave her.

2. Whose place does Makina’s brother take in the army?
(a) An intellectually-challenged teen.
(b) A bad-tempered teen.
(c) A dreamy man.
(d) An Anglo man.

3. Who does Makina say was supposed to help her on this side?
(a) Mr. Aitch.
(b) Mr. Q.
(c) Mr. Double-U.
(d) Mr. P.

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

5. What effect does Makina’s writing have?
(a) It dissolved the cop’s anger.
(b) It summons bystanders to get involved.
(c) It makes the cop angrier.
(d) It galvanizes the other migrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Makina packed in her rucksack?

2. What did Makina’s brother eat until he recovered after discovering there was nothing at the land he had gone to see?

3. What is Makina nervous about when she travels to the end of the world?

4. What is Makina’s brother told he will be doing, by taking this job?

5. What does the narrator say had happened to whatever had been in this place previously?

(see the answer key)

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