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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Makina and her brother talk when she first finds him?
(a) In the closet.
(b) In the park.
(c) In the street.
(d) In the hallway.

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

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

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

5. How does Makina characterize new ways of saying things?
(a) As new things themselves.
(b) As transformations of the old world.
(c) As prophesies of a new world.
(d) As degradation of pure languages.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why is Makina surprised by the man who opens the door at the address the woman from the restaurant gave her?

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

5. Why did Makina’s brother not answer this person's question?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Makina find at the address she gets from the restaurant?

2. Why does Makina’s brother say he did not return after the land fiasco?

3. What is Makina’s reaction when she sees her brother?

4. How does the narrator describe the boy whose place Makina’s brother took, in the army?

5. What kind of marriage ceremony does Makina encounter on her way to the army base?

6. How does Makina’s brother describe his experience of war?

7. How does the narrator describe Makina's transition from one city to the next?

8. What does Makina find at the address she has been traveling toward?

9. What does Makina learn about the job her brother took?

10. What does Makina learn about her brother from the old woman?

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