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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. What did Makina’s brother’s first note home say?
(a) "I am here on the land, waiting for you."
(b) "I haven’t found the land yet, but I will."
(c) "Please send money, I am broke."
(d) "I have found the land, but it is nothing."

2. What does the woman tell Makina about her brother’s condition when he showed up?
(a) He was sick as a dog.
(b) He was confused and homesick.
(c) He was broke and angry.
(d) He was proud and standoffish.

3. Who does Makina think when her acquaintance recognizes her?
(a) That she is very hungry.
(b) That she must still inspire fear.
(c) That she must look terrible.
(d) That she must be filthy.

4. What does Makina’s brother say made him confident about taking this job?
(a) The military was the most powerful in the world, and it would bring him back safe.
(b) It would hide the shame of having been duped about the land.
(c) The amount of money would be life-changing if he got it.
(d) Dying in a foreign land wasn’t any worse than starving or being beaten in this one.

5. Who offered Makina’s brother a job?
(a) An excavator.
(b) An Anglo woman.
(c) An old woman in a restaurant.
(d) Mr. P.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Makina not see in the city to tell her that it is a city?

2. What distinguishes Makina’s travel from one city to another?

3. Why did Makina’s brother not answer this person's question?

4. Which statue does Makina need to look for next?

5. What traits make the people’s language in America similar to Makina herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Makina find at the address she has been traveling toward?

2. Why does Makina’s brother say he did not return after the land fiasco?

3. How does the narrator describe Makina's transition from one city to the next?

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

5. How does Makina say she found her brother?

6. What were the three messages Makina’s brother sent home?

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

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

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

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

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