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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. What did Makina’s brother eat until he recovered after discovering there was nothing at the land he had gone to see?
(a) Refuse.
(b) Bread.
(c) Soup.
(d) Avocados.

2. Who offered Makina’s brother a job?
(a) Mr. P.
(b) An Anglo woman.
(c) An excavator.
(d) An old woman in a restaurant.

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

4. How does Makina characterize the places she arrives at, and keeps going to?
(a) Empty pits.
(b) Plastic crowds.
(c) Bleak tundras.
(d) Teeming cities.

5. What effect does Makina’s writing have?
(a) It summons bystanders to get involved.
(b) It galvanizes the other migrants.
(c) It dissolved the cop’s anger.
(d) It makes the cop angrier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Makina thinks when she sees her brother?

2. What does Makina’s brother say made him confident about taking this job?

3. What is the first soldier Makina meets doing when she asks for her brother?

4. What does the man at the land her brother had gone to tell Makina was there from the beginning?

5. What distinguishes Makina’s travel from one city to another?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the three messages Makina’s brother sent home?

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

3. How does Makina’s brother explain why Mexican people stay in the U.S.?

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

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

6. What drives Makina to take shelter in an ATM booth?

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

8. How does Makina find the boy from the bus?

9. Who is the man who evicts Makina from the ATM booth?

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

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