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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Makina’s brother say made him confident about taking this job?
(a) The military was the most powerful in the world, and it would bring him back safe.
(b) Dying in a foreign land wasn’t any worse than starving or being beaten in this one.
(c) It would hide the shame of having been duped about the land.
(d) The amount of money would be life-changing if he got it.

3. What does Makina’s brother say happened after he went to the land?
(a) He got a job and found a house to live in.
(b) He tried to get home but got sick.
(c) He bounced around from ass-kicking to ass-kicking.
(d) He tried to kill himself but only half-heartedly.

4. Who is guarding the door at Mr. Aitch’s place?
(a) A glacial guard.
(b) A kid Makina shucked.
(c) A goon with a gat.
(d) There is no guard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Makina characterize the places she arrives at, and keeps going to?

2. What distinguishes Makina’s travel from one city to another?

3. What does Makina’s brother’s second note say?

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

5. What does Makina say people are doing when they combine languages?

(see the answer key)

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