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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. How does the narrator describe Makina and her brother’s feelings when they walk out of the office?
2. What does Makina’s brother say his experience of war mostly consisted of?
3. What does Makina write?
4. Why had this person joined the army?
5. What kind of machines are working at the place Makina arrives at, which her brother had gone to see?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Makina’s brother say happened to him after he went to the land?
2. What drives Makina to take shelter in an ATM booth?
3. How does Makina find the boy from the bus?
4. How does Makina’s brother explain why Mexican people stay in the U.S.?
5. What does Makina learn about her brother from the old woman?
6. What is it about the people she meets in the city that excites Makina?
7. How does Makina’s brother describe his experience of war?
8. What kind of omen does the light in the sky give Makina when she arrives at the address?
9. How does the narrator describe the boy whose place Makina’s brother took, in the army?
10. What happened when Makina’s brother came back from the war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an evaluative review of Signs Preceding the End of the World. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
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