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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has Makina packed in her rucksack?
2. What do the signs say, that Makina sees in the city after passing through the mountains?
3. Why does Makina feel guilty about making her trip?
4. How does Makina’s gunshot wound feel when she washes up?
5. How does Makina avoid being drowned when their inner tube flips in the river?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Makina say immigrants carried in their rucksacks?
2. How does Mr. P. help Makina in her quest?
3. What is Mr. Q’s style of speaking like?
4. What is Makina’s trip through the mountains like?
5. What has Makina brought with her on her trip to the other side?
6. What kind of relationship does Makina have with her boyfriend?
7. What is Makina’s impression of the people she sees in the city?
8. What kind of omen does Makina think she sees in the beginning of Chapter 3?
9. What danger does Makina face in making her trip?
10. How does the narrator describe the city Makina arrives in?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate Signs Preceding the End of the World as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative.
What are the challenges Makina face in rites of passage in this novel? How do they overcome these challenges, and what do they learn at each stage? Are they complete human beings at the end of the novel, or do they die too early to learn all the lessons a person would need to learn?
Essay Topic 2
Who is the audience for Signs Preceding the End of the World? What is the ideal reader for Signs Preceding the End of the World likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate your own reading of Signs Preceding the End of the World—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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