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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 does the woman tell Makina about her brother’s condition when he showed up?
2. What does Makina find when she arrives at the land her brother had gone to see?
3. What would Makina’s brother keep at the end of the deployment?
4. What does Makina’s brother say when Makina asks about the land?
5. Whose place does Makina’s brother take in the army?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the three messages Makina’s brother sent home?
2. How does Makina say she found her brother?
3. How does Makina’s brother describe his experience of war?
4. What is it about the people she meets in the city that excites Makina?
5. What does Makina learn about the job her brother took?
6. What kind of omen does the light in the sky give Makina when she arrives at the address?
7. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?
8. Who is the man who evicts Makina from the ATM booth?
9. How does Makina’s brother explain why Mexican people stay in the U.S.?
10. What does Makina’s brother say happened to him after he went to the land?
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
Compare and contrast Makina’s character with other plucky and resourceful female characters you have read. How are they similar, how are they different? Is Makina a type, whose behavior is consistent with others cut from her mold, or is she a unique individual?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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