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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Makina characterize the shift in the people’s language in America?
(a) Assertive.
(b) Defiant.
(c) Nurturing.
(d) Self-defensive.

2. What does Makina write?
(a) A lecture.
(b) A jeremiad.
(c) A plea.
(d) A tirade.

3. What is the first thing Makina thinks when she sees her brother?
(a) That this person looks a lot like her brother.
(b) That her brother looks tired.
(c) That her brother should come home with her.
(d) That her brother looks so grown up in uniform.

4. What does the light look like in the sky when Makina arrives at the address?
(a) Drying blood.
(b) Gray with snow.
(c) Yellow storm clouds.
(d) Pink flowers.

5. Why did Makina’s brother not answer this person's question?
(a) He refused to give the person an advantage by answering.
(b) He refused to condescend to answer.
(c) He felt so much pity he was angry.
(d) He did not have enough of the language.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the four places with the same name does Makina want?

2. What would happen if Makina’s brother died during the time at war?

3. What does the family do when Makina’s brother returns?

4. What does Makina’s brother’s second note say?

5. Where does Makina hear a voice she recognizes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Makina meet at the army base before she meets her brother?

2. What drives Makina to take shelter in an ATM booth?

3. How does Makina’s brother explain why Mexican people stay in the U.S.?

4. Who is the man who evicts Makina from the ATM booth?

5. What does Makina think she will do if they tell her bad news?

6. What does Makina learn about her brother from the old woman?

7. What does Makina’s brother say happened to him after he went to the land?

8. How does the narrator describe the boy whose place Makina’s brother took, in the army?

9. What does the arresting cop tell Makina when he corrals her with the other immigrants?

10. How does Makina find the boy from the bus?

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