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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the tribal police often decline to come to pick up abandoned vehicles when Border Patrol calls them?
(a) They do not want the paperwork either.
(b) They think abandoned vehicles harbor harmful spirits.
(c) They are afraid people will still be in the vehicle.
(d) They are too busy with more important work.

2. Where does Cantu find two tired immigrants camped out on the reservation on page 38?
(a) In a soup kitchen.
(b) In a police station.
(c) In an abandoned school house.
(d) Inside a church.

3. Who is also in the car with Adam and his wife when they flag Cantu down on the road?
(a) Adam's young son.
(b) Adam's three children.
(c) Adam's father.
(d) Adam's dog.

4. Why does Cantu's mother tell him he can work anywhere he would like?
(a) He is the smartest person she knows.
(b) She knows many people who can get him a job in finance in New York.
(c) He speaks five languages and anyone would be happy to employ him.
(d) He graduated with honors and has a 4-year degree.

5. Why is Morales in the hospital on page 65?
(a) He had had a heart attack.
(b) He was in a swimming accident.
(c) He was in a motorcycle accident.
(d) He was suffering from severe anxiety.

6. Why do some people on the reservation sleep in the middle of the road?
(a) They want to stop the cars from passing.
(b) They think it means they will be taken into custody and given a warm bed.
(c) When they are intoxicated, they want to sleep somewhere warm, and the asphalt retains the day's heat.
(d) They are confused and think it is a sandy beach.

7. On page 70, what does Cantu see on his way home from working the swing shift that unsettles him?
(a) Halloween decorations in January.
(b) A large house fire.
(c) A man lurking in the dark on his street.
(d) A dead dog in the street.

8. On page 97, what does Cantu tell Hayward is bothering him about the job?
(a) He feels that his language skills are not up to par.
(b) He feels like he is not getting paid enough.
(c) He feels like all the real work is really out in the field.
(d) He feels bad for all the people crossing that he can not help.

9. According to Cantu, why do so many bodies in the morgue in Juarez remain unclaimed?
(a) Families are too poor to pay the fees to collect the bodies.
(b) Families have already moved out of the country, so they are not there to claim their loved ones' bodies.
(c) Families fear retribution if they claim their loved ones' bodies.
(d) Families do not know their loved ones have died.

10. What Oaxacan food did the two men Morales and Cantu picked up on page 50 offer to Cantu?
(a) Fried grasshoppers.
(b) Beer.
(c) Chorizo.
(d) Chocolate.

11. When Cantu stops a suspicious car on page 70, what false name does one of the men give to Cantu?
(a) Mick Jagger.
(b) Michael Jackson.
(c) Jimi Hendrix.
(d) George Bush.

12. Who did Cantu's mother name him after?
(a) The city of San Francisco.
(b) Saint Francis of Assisi.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) An old family friend.

13. What does Cantu's supervisor tell him he might find at first in his new job in intelligence?
(a) The shift work may be difficult to adjust to.
(b) It may seem boring compared to field work.
(c) His ears might ring from wearing headphones all day.
(d) His eyes may seem tired from looking at screens all day.

14. What visions of migrants does Cantu describe sometimes seeing in his nightmares on page 34?
(a) Migrants who have been shot and thrown in mass graves.
(b) Migrants who have been bitten by poisonous snakes.
(c) Migrant children looking for their parents in the desert.
(d) Dead migrants who have not made it out of the desert alive.

15. What do the young boys tell Cantu that the man in their party who died did that might explain his death?
(a) He did not drink any water during the entire journey.
(b) He had left his heart pills at home.
(c) He did not take his insulin during the entire journey.
(d) He took a pill the coyote gave him - likely an amphetamine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the elderly man from Michoacan ask Cantu if he can do while he wants to be deported on page 31?

2. What animal features in one of Cantu's unsettling dreams on page 14?

3. Why does Cantu tell his mother he wants to work in Border Patrol on page 23?

4. What does Cantu learn decapitation can be a symbol for?

5. Why does Cantu excuse himself from Morales's hospital room and not return?

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