View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What traits make the people’s language in America similar to Makina herself?
(a) Intensity, passion.
(b) Formlessness, potential.
(c) Durability, obduracy.
(d) Malleability, permeability.

2. How does Makina travel to the bus station?
(a) Underground.
(b) On foot.
(c) By horse.
(d) By taxi.

3. What does the narrator say it feels like like to be around Cora?
(a) Being lost.
(b) Being a child again.
(c) Sitting on her lap.
(d) Having your thoughts a million miles away.

4. What is the advantage of a polyglot language, in Makina’s eyes?
(a) It includes more people.
(b) It tells you new things.
(c) It lives closer to the heart.
(d) It belongs to the people, not the academics.

5. How does Makina describe her countrymen when she sees them on the street?
(a) Like they are there to take orders.
(b) Like they are there to take over.
(c) Like they are there looking for themselves.
(d) Like they are there looking for their family members.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Makina find Mr. Double-U?

2. The thing Makina sees once she is across the rive is not, in fact, a good omen: What is it?

3. How many languages does Makina speak?

4. Where does Makina hear a voice she recognizes?

5. How does Makina’s gunshot wound feel when she washes up?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 257 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample