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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 kind of language do Mexicans speak on the other side?
2. What traits make the people’s language in America similar to Makina herself?
3. Why did Makina’s brother not return home?
4. What does Makina think she will do if she gets bad news at the army base?
5. What does Makina write on after a cop tells her to do something?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Makina say she found her brother?
2. What kind of omen does the light in the sky give Makina when she arrives at the address?
3. How does the narrator describe the boy whose place Makina’s brother took, in the army?
4. What does the arresting cop tell Makina when he corrals her with the other immigrants?
5. Who is the man who evicts Makina from the ATM booth?
6. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?
7. How does Makina find the boy from the bus?
8. What does Makina learn about the job her brother took?
9. How does the narrator describe Makina's transition from one city to the next?
10. How does Makina’s brother explain why Mexican people stay in the U.S.?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Herrera describe American culture in Signs Preceding the End of the World? Is he critical and judgmental? Is he aiming for truth and accuracy? What does his depiction of American culture accomplish?
Essay Topic 2
When is Signs Preceding the End of the World most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of women in Signs Preceding the End of the World? How are women portrayed, and what kinds of roles are open to them? How would you evaluate Herrera’s depiction of women in this novel?
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