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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. How does Makina describe the cop cars’ progress across the landscape?
(a) Ricocheting.
(b) Haring.
(c) Bouncing.
(d) Lumbering.

2. What is Makina nervous about when she travels to the end of the world?
(a) Being disappeared-lost.
(b) Being disoriented-lost.
(c) Being financially-lost.
(d) Being soul-lost.

3. How does Makina characterize new ways of saying things?
(a) As degradation of pure languages.
(b) As prophesies of a new world.
(c) As new things themselves.
(d) As transformations of the old world.

4. Which of these things does the sinkhole swallow?
(a) A house and camper.
(b) Screams of passersby.
(c) The noonday sunshine.
(d) A flock of geese.

5. What does Makina’s brother say typically initiated periods of activity for him and his fellow soldiers?
(a) A higher-up would decide it was time for a campaign.
(b) A bomb would be thrown into the compound.
(c) One of his homeys would be shot.
(d) There was no regularity to the periods of activity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Makina help Mr. Q with a few years ago?

2. What does Makina write on after a cop tells her to do something?

3. What is the first thing Makina thinks when she sees her brother?

4. Who is guarding Mr. Double-U?

5. What does Makina say is a "slippery bitch" (11)?

(see the answer key)

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