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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 201 - 247).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jose's private immigration lawyer tell Cantu, Diane, and Jose's wife about what happens if Jose's request to stay in the U.S. is denied?
(a) He will be deported to Mexico quickly.
(b) He will be deported to Mexico within about one year.
(c) He will be held in prison for six months and then released to see his family in the U.S.
(d) He will be released and told to go back to Mexico within two years.

2. Where does Cantu go hiking on page 148?
(a) The Guadalupe Mountains.
(b) The Smoky Mountains.
(c) The Rocky Mountains.
(d) The Franklin Mountains.

3. What happens to Jose's middle son that Jose tells Cantu he is worried about on page 168?
(a) He was hit by a car but was recovering.
(b) He was being bullied at school.
(c) He was diagnosed with cancer.
(d) He was struggling in keeping up with his math homework.

4. How does Cantu's mother know something is bothering him as she explains it on page 221?
(a) He has not been to visit her in a long time.
(b) She sees he is losing weight.
(c) She can hear the edge in his voice and he has been distant.
(d) He has asked her for money, which he has never done before.

5. Why does Cantu tell his mother he wants to work in Border Patrol on page 23?
(a) He wants his wife and children to be proud of him.
(b) Border Patrol will pay for him to earn a master's degree while he works there.
(c) The job pays very well.
(d) He has read about the border in books and now he wants to see what it is like for himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 106, what does researcher Molly Molloy believe about the reporting on the statistics of homicides in Mexico since 2007?

2. What nickname does Jose use for Cantu on page 213?

3. Why do Border Patrol agents destroy migrants' belongings they find in the desert?

4. When did large-scale fighting start in the Mexican Revolution?

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

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