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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. Which suburb does Makina need to visit next?
2. Why does Makina not want to call the cops for help?
3. Where do Makina and her brother talk when she first finds him?
4. What does Makina not see in the city to tell her that it is a city?
5. Whose place does Makina’s brother take in the army?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?
2. How does Makina free herself and the others who have been collected by the cop?
3. What is Makina’s reaction when she sees her brother?
4. What kind of omen does the light in the sky give Makina when she arrives at the address?
5. What were the three messages Makina’s brother sent home?
6. Who is the man who evicts Makina from the ATM booth?
7. How does Makina’s brother explain why Mexican people stay in the U.S.?
8. How does the narrator describe the boy whose place Makina’s brother took, in the army?
9. Why does Makina’s brother say he did not return after the land fiasco?
10. How does Makina’s brother describe his experience of war?
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
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
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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