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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the family expect Makina’s brother to do for them?
(a) Fight in a foreign war.
(b) Serve out a year’s enlistment.
(c) Die in battle.
(d) Learn to fly helicopters.

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

3. What does Makina say she wants to do when the man tells her that the family who lived there moved?
(a) Kill someone.
(b) Go to Europe.
(c) Hang herself from a lamp post.
(d) Go home.

4. What is the first thing Makina thinks when she sees her brother?
(a) That this person looks a lot like her brother.
(b) That her brother looks so grown up in uniform.
(c) That her brother should come home with her.
(d) That her brother looks tired.

5. What does Makina do when she realizes she has made a mistake in recognizing her brother?
(a) Falls over.
(b) Steadies herself against the desk.
(c) Collects herself without anyone noticing
(d) Covers her error with laughter.

6. What does Makina hear as soon as she leaves the army base?
(a) "Don’t leave me!"
(b) "Run!"
(c) "You’re under arrest!"
(d) "Assume the position!"

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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) It would hide the shame of having been duped about the land.
(c) The amount of money would be life-changing if he got it.
(d) Dying in a foreign land wasn’t any worse than starving or being beaten in this one.

13. Which direction does Makina have to go, to get to the first suggested place?
(a) East.
(b) North.
(c) West.
(d) South.

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

15. What does Makina’s brother say when Makina asks about the land?
(a) He asks if she has gone to see it, as if to say: you know it is worthless.
(b) He tells her that he never got there, because he was robbed on the way.
(c) He says that when he got there, the construction was just starting.
(d) He tells her a long and complicated lie about how he lost it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Makina think when her acquaintance recognizes her?

3. Which suburb does Makina need to visit next?

4. Why had this person joined the army?

5. What would Makina’s brother keep at the end of the deployment?

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