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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Aitch’s driver do when Makina takes out the package?
(a) Takes it to a man in a market.
(b) Takes it and keeps it.
(c) Refuses to take it.
(d) Throws it away.

2. Who are the men in the black car waiting for Makina?
(a) Cops.
(b) Mr. P’s men.
(c) Coyotes.
(d) Thieves.

3. What does Makina say to herself when the ground lurches, at the beginning of the book?
(a) "Here it comes."
(b) "This isn’t happening."
(c) "I’m dead."
(d) "I’m not going to die here."

4. What shape does the sinkhole take when it is done sinking?
(a) A long oval.
(b) A wide tear.
(c) A perfect circle.
(d) A narrow horizontal cavern.

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

6. How does Makina’s gunshot wound feel when she washes up?
(a) It throbs but bearably.
(b) It barely stings.
(c) It is hot and sore.
(d) It feels like bees stung her.

7. What does Chucho tell Makina about the rancher who stops them?
(a) That he is one of the people who think they are above the law.
(b) That he has a business reporting immigrants.
(c) That he will sell them as slaves if he can.
(d) That he will get paid for their scalps.

8. Who is guarding Mr. Double-U?
(a) A boy Makina has had relations with.
(b) Goons with guns.
(c) A black man with a badge.
(d) A solitary silent man.

9. What does the narrator say affected Makina for the first time with this sinkhole?
(a) The earth’s insanity.
(b) Grief over her losses.
(c) Industrial accidents.
(d) The prophecies about the end of the world.

10. What is Makina’s job at home?
(a) She is a teacher.
(b) She is a cook.
(c) She takes care of children.
(d) She runs the local switchboard.

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

12. How do the people in the anglogaggle appear to Makina?
(a) Sleepy.
(b) Content.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Miserable.

13. What does Makina tell her younger sister about men who have filthy mouths?
(a) That they are the most dangerous.
(b) That they can still be fragile.
(c) That they might have powerful friends.
(d) That they are usually afraid.

14. What does Makina drink with Mr. Double-U?
(a) Beer.
(b) Pulque.
(c) Tea.
(d) Water.

15. Where does Chucho tell Makina the pickup is, that will take her she wants to go?
(a) On the other side of a mountain.
(b) Just up the road.
(c) At a ranch.
(d) In a long valley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the sinkhole already swallowed?

2. What is Makina seduced by, in the city?

3. How did Makina handle the man-who-struck-it-rich's failure?

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

5. How does Makina avoid being drowned when their inner tube flips in the river?

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