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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 time did the men say it was when they met with Mendez?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Evening.
(d) Mid day.

2. What city did the walkers start their walk from?
(a) No city- their bus driver let them off early.
(b) Tucson.
(c) Sonoita.
(d) San Luis.

3. What structure did the walkers have to cross to get into America?
(a) A collapsed barbed-wire fence.
(b) A highly-guarded tunnel.
(c) A giant moat.
(d) A twenty-foot wall.

4. What reason did the remaining two Coyotes give for leaving the group?
(a) They were going to get water.
(b) They did not want to slow the walkers down.
(c) They were tired of listening to the walkers complain.
(d) They wanted to cover more ground.

5. How did the men react when confronted with strange lights at Bluebird Pass?
(a) They bowed down in prayer.
(b) They dropped to the ground and waited.
(c) They ran into the desert.
(d) They begged for rescue.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many deserts were the men originally supposed to cross?

2. Which of the men does Urrea describe as the "grandpa" of the group?

3. Which Coyote wanted the group to change its plans once it became clear they were lost?

4. How long were the walkers told to wait for their Coyotes?

5. To what did Mendez allegedly attribute the strange lights at Bluebird Pass?

Short Essay Questions

1. What form of payment did Mendez insist on receiving?

2. Why were officials skeptical when Mendez claimed that he planned to return for the walkers?

3. What geographical feature did Mendez get lost in, as if it were a maze?

4. What disrupted the walkers' plans at Bluebird Pass?

5. What did Mendez do to upset Rafael Temich?

6. What happens to the expedition led by Santos?

7. Why did Mendez tell the men to pretend that they were going to San Luis?

8. What caused the group to break apart after they pressed on without Mendez?

9. What disagreement emerges between Santos and Mendez?

10. Why did Reymundo Sr. tear up his American money?

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