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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many attempts has Enrique made to get to the United States?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.
2. Why do many Honduran mothers pull their children from school?
(a) They like to have them home to spend time with them.
(b) They have them watch siblings, work, or beg.
(c) They do not value education.
(d) They want to homeschool them.
3. Where does Enrique sleep after the doctor is finished with him?
(a) He sleeps in a villager's home.
(b) He sleeps at the doctor's house.
(c) He sleeps on the concrete floor of the police command post.
(d) He sleeps under a tree.
4. Where does Enrique live when his initially mother leaves?
(a) He lives with his mother.
(b) He lives with a friend.
(c) He lives with his father, Luis.
(d) He lives with Belky.
5. How do children traveling to the United States plan to find their mothers?
(a) They carry their mother's phone numbers with them on their journey.
(b) They plan to email them once they make it across the U.S. border.
(c) They will call home and ask relatives to give them an address.
(d) They will ask an officer for help at the immigration check point.
6. Who is the field worker that discovers Enrique stumbling in a field?
(a) Miguel Rellana.
(b) Adan Diaz Ruiz.
(c) Sirenio Gómez Fuentes.
(d) Carlos Carrasco.
7. How long does Lourdes plan to stay in the United States?
(a) She plans to stay for six months.
(b) She plans to stay for one year.
(c) She plans to stay forever.
(d) She plans to stay for five years.
8. María Isabel does not feel well, which causes her to do what?
(a) She has to go to the emergency room.
(b) She quits school.
(c) She becomes very ill.
(d) She goes to the doctor.
9. On his eighth trip through Chiapas, where does Enrique decide to sleep?
(a) He sleeps at someone's house.
(b) He sleeps in the train station.
(c) He sleeps in a clump of grass.
(d) He sleeps in the cemetery.
10. How did most of the immigrants Nazario talked to make it to the U.S.?
(a) They took an airplane.
(b) They road the top of trains.
(c) They drove.
(d) They took a bus.
11. 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) They are too tall.
(d) There is nothing to hold on to on top.
12. What percentage of migrants who board the train are children?
(a) 75%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 20-30%.
(d) 50%.
13. How many migrants did Díaz bury in the last 18 months?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.
14. How many estimated children enter the United States illegally without either parent?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 48,000.
(c) 75,000.
(d) 5,000.
15. How does Belky react to her mother's disappearance?
(a) She is glad she is gone.
(b) She is devastated, but she knows she should be thankful to her mother for being willing to go.
(c) She does not even notice.
(d) She is angry.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the mayor in Chapter 2 do for Enrique?
2. Who tells Nazario of migrants to hurt themselves by running into electrified fences and other ways before coming to his house near the tracks?
3. To what gang does the gangster belong that sleeps next to Enrique in Chapter 3?
4. What fueled the wave of female immigrants' entry into the United States?
5. What IS NOT one of the dangers associated with the train tracks in Chiapas?
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