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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 does María Isabel pray?
(a) She prays she is pregnant with twins.
(b) She prays that Mexican Immigration authorities will catch Enrique and bring him back to Honduras.
(c) She prays she is not pregnant.
(d) She prays she can join Enrique on his journey.

2. On average, how many migrant girls are sexually assaulted during their journey?
(a) 1:100.
(b) 1:500.
(c) 1:6.
(d) 1:10.

3. How many migrants who arrive at the Albergue Belén shelter in Tapachula, on average, are robbed, beaten, or extorted by police?
(a) One out of three are robbed, beaten, or extorted.
(b) Four out of five are robbed, beaten, or extorted.
(c) All of them are robbed, beaten, or extorted.
(d) None of them are robbed, beaten, or extorted

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

5. What does the mayor in Chapter 2 do for Enrique?
(a) He takes him to jail.
(b) He drags out a wooden church pew for Enrique to lie down.
(c) He calls his mother so she can come get him.
(d) He has him sent back to Honduras.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do María Isabel and a friend decide in Chapter 2 that they are going to do?

2. How many derailments does Enrique's train average a month?

3. Who is the doctor that sees Enrique in Chapter 2?

4. Who tells Nazario of migrants to hurt themselves by running into electrified fences and other ways before coming to his house near the tracks?

5. Why is Enrique assaulted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plans did Sonia Nazario make for her research journey before setting out?

2. What are the extent of Enrique's injuries in Chapter 2? Who treats him?

3. How does the author introduce the theme of family in the book's Prologue?

4. When does Enrique begin working? What does he do? Why must he work?

5. Why is Chiapas referred to as the beast by the migrants?

6. Why has Enrique not traveled in the company of gangsters on his current trip in Chapter 3?

7. Where is Enrique's family from? How is this setting described?

8. What happens when Enrique takes a ride from a passing driver in Chapter 2?

9. How does Enrique escape his incarceration in Chapter 3?

10. How old is Lourdes when she leaves her children? Why does she leave them?

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