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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. Who are the men in the black car waiting for Makina?
2. What is it about Makina’s boyfriend’s behavior that inspires respect in her?
3. What does the old man say the point of baseball is?
4. What does Makina think the folding chairs look like, at the stadium?
5. What does Mr. Double-U offer Makina?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Makina say immigrants carried in their rucksacks?
2. How does the narrator describe the city Makina arrives in?
3. What kind of omen does Makina think she sees in the beginning of Chapter 3?
4. What kind of relationship does Makina have with her boyfriend?
5. How does the old man explain the game of baseball to Makina?
6. What is Makina’s trip through the mountains like?
7. What is Makina’s impression of the people she sees in the city?
8. What is Mr. Q’s style of speaking like?
9. Why does Cora send Makina to talk to the top dogs?
10. Who do Makina and Chucho encounter on their trip from the river in Chapter 3, and how do they escape from this person?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Assess Herrera’s novel as a contribution to contemporary discussions of immigration in the U.S. What is Herrera saying, and how does it fit with perspectives other commentators or elected officials are taking? Whose arguments can Herrera be said to be backing? Which arguments is his book a refutation of?
Essay Topic 2
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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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