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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is brimming in the immigrants’ language?
(a) Grief.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Powerlessness.
(d) Patience.

2. What would Makina’s brother keep at the end of the deployment?
(a) The person’s identity.
(b) The family’s house.
(c) The person’s books.
(d) His military gear.

3. What kind of machines are working at the place Makina arrives at, which her brother had gone to see?
(a) Excavators.
(b) Drilling rigs.
(c) Paving machines.
(d) Construction machines.

4. Which statue does Makina need to look for next?
(a) A man in a frock coat.
(b) A bear dancing.
(c) An old man thinking.
(d) A general on a horse.

5. Who does Makina think when her acquaintance recognizes her?
(a) That she is very hungry.
(b) That she must look terrible.
(c) That she must still inspire fear.
(d) That she must be filthy.

6. What distinguishes Makina’s travel from one city to another?
(a) She only knows she has arrived because people tell her so.
(b) She has to take so many varieties of transportation to get there.
(c) She arrives surprisingly quickly.
(d) She does not leave an urban environment.

7. How does Makina characterize the shift in the people’s language in America?
(a) Defiant.
(b) Nurturing.
(c) Assertive.
(d) Self-defensive.

8. What does the man at the land her brother had gone to tell Makina was there from the beginning?
(a) A town.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A river.
(d) A forest.

9. Why did Makina go into the ATM booth?
(a) To change her clothes.
(b) For shelter from the cold.
(c) To hide from some cops.
(d) To get money.

10. Why had this person joined the army?
(a) On a dare.
(b) On an unexplained impulse.
(c) In a drunken fit.
(d) In a display of masculinity.

11. What would happen if Makina’s brother died during the time at war?
(a) They would bring his sister to America and give her citizenship.
(b) His family would not get anything.
(c) They would send money to his family.
(d) They would will the land to his family.

12. What does Makina not see in the city to tell her that it is a city?
(a) Residential neighborhoods.
(b) Shopping malls.
(c) Business districts.
(d) Central plazas.

13. What does Makina’s brother say his experience of war mostly consisted of?
(a) Long weeks of technical training.
(b) Long periods of boredom.
(c) A lot of pointless drilling.
(d) Sustained periods of terror.

14. What does Makina write?
(a) A lecture.
(b) A tirade.
(c) A jeremiad.
(d) A plea.

15. What does Makina’s brother’s third note say?
(a) "Stop asking if I’m okay."
(b) "I have a job, now."
(c) "I’m going to send money soon."
(d) "Send money, I’m broke."

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Makina and her brother do before they speak when she first finds him?

2. What does Makina hear as soon as she leaves the army base?

3. What does the light look like in the sky when Makina arrives at the address?

4. Makina says that the language she hears in the U.S. contains both ancient memory and what other trait?

5. What does Makina find when she arrives at the land her brother had gone to see?

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