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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10. The Long Walk - 14. Helicopters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Urrea, why did "hungry men" (47) want to work with Don Moi?
(a) They wanted guts like his.
(b) The Hungry Men were a rock group and they believed Don Moi could get them a gig.
(c) They wanted to learn how to make American cheeseburgers.
(d) They wanted to distract him from flirting with their wives.

2. What is Aztlan?
(a) The code name for one of the walkers accompanying Mendez.
(b) A well loved brand of Tejano beer.
(c) A mysterious folkloric creature residing in the Devil's Highway.
(d) The traditional home of the Aztecs, said to be in the American Southwest.

3. Why were there few beans to eat in Veracruz in the early 2000s?
(a) The bean crops native to Mexico had gone extinct.
(b) A great fire had wiped out most of the bean shipments.
(c) The pope had decreed that beans were improper according to Leviticus.
(d) Consumers in the United States drove bean prices to unreasonable levels.

4. What collapsing commodity most damaged the economy of Veracruz?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Oil.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Milk.

5. What is Hotel Rio Colorado?
(a) A fictional place from a popular but haunting Mexican ballad.
(b) A "mecca" (80) of civilization lying between several different locations.
(c) A well-beloved and high-class chain of Mexican hotels.
(d) A sarcastic term for a field of skeletons on the Devil's Highway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mountain range did Mendez repeatedly attempt to climb, without success?

2. Who got Mendez started working as a guide?

3. What pop culture figure did Don Moi resemble to the "muchachos of Veracruz" (48)?

4. How did Mendez respond to hearing that some of the walkers had fallen?

5. What alternate plan did one of the Coyotes suggest after it became clear they were lost?

(see the answer key)

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