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

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

3. Whose place does Makina’s brother take in the army?
(a) A dreamy man.
(b) An intellectually-challenged teen.
(c) A bad-tempered teen.
(d) An Anglo man.

4. What does Makina’s brother say made him confident about taking this job?
(a) It would hide the shame of having been duped about the land.
(b) The amount of money would be life-changing if he got it.
(c) The military was the most powerful in the world, and it would bring him back safe.
(d) Dying in a foreign land wasn’t any worse than starving or being beaten in this one.

5. What part of language is Makina’s brother teaching the fellow soldier who talks to him and Makina?
(a) The past tense.
(b) The future tense.
(c) The conditional tense.
(d) The optative mood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Makina hear a voice she recognizes?

2. What does Makina say she wants to do when the man tells her that the family who lived there moved?

3. What did Makina’s brother’s first note home say?

4. What kind of language do Mexicans speak on the other side?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is it about the people she meets in the city that excites Makina?

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

10. How does Makina say she found her brother?

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