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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue - Chapter 1: "The Boy Left Behind".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Belky live when her mother leaves?
(a) She lives with her family.
(b) She lives with a friend.
(c) She lives with an aunt.
(d) She lives with her grandmother.

2. Why does Lourdes fear having a smuggler get her childen over the border?
(a) She worries the smuggler would hurt or abandon them.
(b) She worries the smuggler would sell them into child trafficking.
(c) She worries the smuggler would swindle them.
(d) She worries the smuggler might try to marry one of them.

3. How does Enrique behave at school?
(a) He is the perfect student.
(b) He makes straight As.
(c) He studies hard to make his mother proud.
(d) He is a troublemaker.

4. What habit does Enrique develop?
(a) He becomes addicted to sniffing glue.
(b) He bites his nails.
(c) He stutters.
(d) He pulls at his hair.

5. What is the average age of the child caught by the Border Patrol?
(a) 17.
(b) 13.
(c) 7.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lourdes' first job in the United States?

2. What happens to Lourdes when she arrives in Los Angeles?

3. How many Central American immigrants get help from a smuggler?

4. How did most of the immigrants Nazario talked to make it to the U.S.?

5. Enrique's grandmother writes a letter to Lourdes. What does it say?

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