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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the mayor of San Pedro Taanatepec?
(a) Carlos Carrasco.
(b) Guillermo Toledo Montes.
(c) Karla Yamileth Chavez.
(d) Adan Diaz Ruiz.

2. How old is the gangster who sleeps next to Enrique in Chapter 3?
(a) 13.
(b) 21.
(c) 15.
(d) 19.

3. On his eighth trip through Chiapas, where does Enrique decide to sleep?
(a) He sleeps in the cemetery.
(b) He sleeps in the train station.
(c) He sleeps in a clump of grass.
(d) He sleeps at someone's house.

4. Why are boxcars dangerous to ride atop?
(a) They are where most people ride.
(b) The ladder does not go all the way to the top.
(c) There is nothing to hold on to on top.
(d) They are too tall.

5. After Díaz decides to help Enrique, he turns him over to his driver. On the way to the doctor, the are approached by a municipal officer. What startles Enrique about this encounter?
(a) He saw the officer on the train.
(b) The officer is one of Enrique's relatives.
(c) He was robbed by the same policeman the day before.
(d) He knows the officer from Honduras.

6. What does Enrique decide he is going to do after he robs his family?
(a) He is going to marry María Isabel.
(b) He is going to apologize to his grandmother and move back home.
(c) He is going to go find his mother.
(d) He is going to get a job and buy a home.

7. What does Enrique say he plans to do once he is released from the hospital in Chapter 2?
(a) He plans to stay in Las Anonas.
(b) He plans to get on another train.
(c) He plans to try to call his mother.
(d) He plans to go home.

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

9. To whom does the field worker that discovers him direct Enrique?
(a) He directs him to a migrant camp.
(b) He directs him to la migra.
(c) He directs him to his home where he helps him.
(d) He directs him to Carlos Carrasco.

10. What happens to Lourdes when she arrives in Los Angeles?
(a) She goes to work in the airport.
(b) She goes back to Honduras.
(c) Her smuggler leaves her.
(d) She catches a flight to Miami.

11. What do María Isabel and a friend decide in Chapter 2 that they are going to do?
(a) They will call United States Customs and have them send Enrique back.
(b) The two of them will journey to the United States together.
(c) The will tell la migra to find Enrique.
(d) They will forget about Enrique and move on.

12. What does Enrique do to escape his attackers?
(a) He jumps from the moving train.
(b) He hides.
(c) He crawls inside a box car.
(d) He screams for help.

13. When Enrique flags down a down a car after being released from the hospital, what does the driver do?
(a) He drives him to the train.
(b) He drives him to the Rio Grande.
(c) He kills him.
(d) He takes Enrique to a migrant checkpoint and turns him over.

14. With whom does Maria Isabel love when she meets Enrique?
(a) Her sister Anna.
(b) Her Uncle Pedro.
(c) Her Aunt Gloria.
(d) Her mother Maria Ana.

15. Where does Enrique live when his initially mother leaves?
(a) He lives with a friend.
(b) He lives with Belky.
(c) He lives with his mother.
(d) He lives with his father, Luis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the average age of the child caught by the Border Patrol?

2. What is they nickname Nazario uses for the train in Chapter 3?

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

4. Of the children who enter the U.S. illegally, what percentage are looking for their mothers?

5. Where does Enrique sleep after the doctor is finished with him?

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