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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (pages 101 - 150).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 99, why is Cantu's mother so upset on the phone?
(a) Her friend had told her she had seen Cantu in the street earlier and he looked very ill.
(b) She had a dream that he had been hurt and she was checking on him.
(c) She wanted to ask how his doctor's appointment had turned out.
(d) She had heard a Border Patrol agent was killed and she worried it might be him.

2. Which of the following exercise is included in Cantu's Border Patrol training?
(a) Squash.
(b) Stationary biking.
(c) Completing a full triathlon.
(d) Soccer.

3. In 2008, which of the following writers conducted interviews with a former cartel hit man?
(a) Martin Bradley.
(b) Christopher Hitchens.
(c) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
(d) Charles Bowden.

4. On page 133, what cosmic event does Cantu imagine his relatives having witnessed?
(a) The impact of a huge meteor.
(b) A lunar eclipse.
(c) A solar eclipse.
(d) The passage of Halley's Comet.

5. What does Cantu learn decapitation can be a symbol for?
(a) Racial violence.
(b) Economic inequality.
(c) Power and dominance.
(d) Submission.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cole do with the hand sanitizer he asks the Border Patrol agents for on page 32?

2. Where does Cantu's mother live?

3. Which war reporter does Cantu mention on page 150 as having examined the idea of "moral injury?

4. On page 104, which city does Frances's daughter tell Cantu they can see?

5. What delicacy did Morales want to eat that the two men he and Cantu picked up on page 50 had?

(see the answer key)

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