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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. Who offered Makina’s brother a job?
(a) Mr. P.
(b) An old woman in a restaurant.
(c) An Anglo woman.
(d) An excavator.
2. What did Makina’s brother expect to get in return for taking this person’s place in the army?
(a) A plot of land.
(b) American citizenship.
(c) A new car.
(d) A large sum of money.
3. What kind of language do Mexicans speak on the other side?
(a) A purer tongue.
(b) A futuristic tongue.
(c) A bastardized tongue.
(d) An intermediary tongue.
4. What does Makina’s brother’s third note say?
(a) "Send money, I’m broke."
(b) "I’m going to send money soon."
(c) "Stop asking if I’m okay."
(d) "I have a job, now."
5. What is the first soldier Makina meets doing when she asks for her brother?
(a) Talking on the phone.
(b) Filing his nails.
(c) Reading.
(d) Reviewing a report.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long does it take for Makina to realize that she has made a mistake in regard to recognizing her brother?
2. What does Makina say she wants to do when the man tells her that the family who lived there moved?
3. What does the woman tell Makina about her brother’s condition when he showed up?
4. What effect does Makina’s writing have?
5. What would Makina’s brother keep at the end of the deployment?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator describe Makina's transition from one city to the next?
2. What were the three messages Makina’s brother sent home?
3. What does Makina learn about the job her brother took?
4. How does the narrator describe the boy whose place Makina’s brother took, in the army?
5. How does Makina’s brother explain why Mexican people stay in the U.S.?
6. What kind of marriage ceremony does Makina encounter on her way to the army base?
7. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?
8. Who is the man who evicts Makina from the ATM booth?
9. What drives Makina to take shelter in an ATM booth?
10. How does Makina find the boy from the bus?
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