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

2. Where is Makina, in her dream, when she is evicted from the ATM booth?
(a) On top of the eighth hill.
(b) In the eighth circle of hell.
(c) Back in her home.
(d) In a cave with her brother.

3. What did the person whose place Makina’s brother is taking ask him?
(a) How much money he needed.
(b) Whether he was scared.
(c) Why he would agree to such a thing.
(d) What his hometown was like.

4. What does the woman tell Makina about her brother’s condition when he showed up?
(a) He was confused and homesick.
(b) He was sick as a dog.
(c) He was proud and standoffish.
(d) He was broke and angry.

5. Where does Makina hear a voice she recognizes?
(a) In the marketplace.
(b) In the abyss.
(c) In a restaurant.
(d) On the bus.

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. Which direction does Makina have to go, to get to the first suggested place?

3. What traits make the people’s language in America similar to Makina herself?

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

5. What does Makina write?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of omen does the light in the sky give Makina when she arrives at the address?

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

4. What happened when Makina’s brother came back from the war?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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