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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. Why does Makina not want to call the cops for help?
(a) Because they will know Mr. P and make trouble for her.
(b) Because her good fortune is measured by avoiding the cops.
(c) Because they will deport her.
(d) Because they will disappear her.

2. What traits make the people’s language in America similar to Makina herself?
(a) Durability, obduracy.
(b) Intensity, passion.
(c) Formlessness, potential.
(d) Malleability, permeability.

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

4. How does Makina’s brother indicate that he wants to leave to talk to her?
(a) He walks out and holds the door so she can follow.
(b) He takes her arm.
(c) He points out the door and follows her.
(d) He tells her let’s go outside.

5. How does Makina’s brother answer when she asks if he got hurt?
(a) He says that he did not get a scratch.
(b) He says that he was wounded once and recovered.
(c) He says that he was only ever grazed lightly by shrapnel or bullets.
(d) He says that he was wounded badly and has never healed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Makina, in her dream, when she is evicted from the ATM booth?

3. What does the light look like in the sky when Makina arrives at the address?

4. What does the woman tell Makina about her brother’s condition when he showed up?

5. What does Makina do when she realizes she has made a mistake in recognizing her brother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Makina free herself and the others who have been collected by the cop?

3. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Makina’s brother say happened to him after he went to the land?

9. What does Makina think she will do if they tell her bad news?

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

(see the answer keys)

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