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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. What does Makina write?
3. What does Makina’s brother say when Makina asks about the land?
4. Which direction does Makina have to go, to get to the first suggested place?
5. What does Makina say people are doing when they combine languages?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Makina learn about her brother from the old woman?
2. What is it about the people she meets in the city that excites Makina?
3. What does Makina learn about the job her brother took?
4. What were the three messages Makina’s brother sent home?
5. How does the narrator describe Makina's transition from one city to the next?
6. How does Makina free herself and the others who have been collected by the cop?
7. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?
8. What happened when Makina’s brother came back from the war?
9. How does the narrator describe the boy whose place Makina’s brother took, in the army?
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
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 the nature and quality of Makina’s relationships with boys in Signs Preceding the End of the World. Who does she have relations with, and what are the assumptions that guide those relationships? Are all of her relationships similar, or are there qualitative differences between her relationships? What do her relationships with boys tell us about her character?
Essay Topic 3
Identify the most important plot points in Signs Preceding the End of the World. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
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