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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 Makina say people are doing when they combine languages?
2. How does Makina characterize new ways of saying things?
3. What does Makina not see in the city to tell her that it is a city?
4. What does the cop tell Makina to do?
5. Why does Makina not want to call the cops for help?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?
2. What does Makina learn about her brother from the old woman?
3. What does Makina’s brother say happened to him after he went to the land?
4. How does Makina’s brother describe his experience of war?
5. What does Makina find at the address she has been traveling toward?
6. What were the three messages Makina’s brother sent home?
7. How does Makina say she found her brother?
8. How does Makina free herself and the others who have been collected by the cop?
9. How does Makina’s brother explain why Mexican people stay in the U.S.?
10. Who is the man who evicts Makina from the ATM booth?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the ending of Signs Preceding the End of the World. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?
Essay Topic 2
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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