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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Cantu excuse himself from Morales's hospital room and not return?
(a) He is squeamish around medical equipment.
(b) He feels he should be at the office doing work.
(c) He is crying and does not want Morales's friends and family to see him upset.
(d) Being in the hospital brings back bad memories of his father's death.

2. Which other colleagues of Cantu's also visited Morales in the hospital while Cantu was there?
(a) Smith and Wesson.
(b) Dominguez and Monterey.
(c) Beto and Manuel.
(d) Cole and Hart.

3. Where are migrants who survive the crossing of the desert often shepherded by smugglers inside the U.S.?
(a) To "drop houses."
(b) To vampire towns.
(c) To prisons.
(d) To family members waiting to welcome them.

4. Who is Cantu's first supervisor on his first rotating shifts with Border Patrol?
(a) Morales.
(b) Mortenson.
(c) Smith.
(d) Hart.

5. What do the people who occasionally break into Adam's house always do, according to what he tells Cantu?
(a) Change the locks.
(b) Leave the water running.
(c) Break windows.
(d) Steal everything, including pots and pans.

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

7. How old were the young immigrant sisters Mortenson asks Cantu to translate for on page 51?
(a) 9 and 10.
(b) 15 and 16.
(c) 6 and 7.
(d) 20 and 21.

8. Which treaty modified the border delineation between Mexico and the U.S. in 1853?
(a) The Treaty of Versailles.
(b) The Treaty of La Mesilla.
(c) The Treaty of Yucatan.
(d) The Treaty of El Paso.

9. How do other agents refer to the village Adam and his wife live in?
(a) The vampire village.
(b) The dead zone.
(c) The meerkat.
(d) The borderline.

10. What does one of the Border Patrol agents bring to the young immigrant sisters on page 51, hoping it will make them feel better?
(a) Bread.
(b) Skittles.
(c) Soda.
(d) A cake.

11. Where does Cantu's supervisor say he hopes to be transferred to eventually?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Northern Virginia or Washington, D.C.

12. What do the Border Patrol agents who have processed dead bodies tell Cantu is the worst thing about the work?
(a) The sound.
(b) The heat.
(c) The smell.
(d) The sight.

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

14. What animal featured in a story Cantu recalls his mother reading to him as a child on page 81?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A bird.
(c) A bear.
(d) A lion.

15. What mountain range along the West Texas border do Cantu and his mother stop at during their Thanksgiving trip on page 3?
(a) The Smoky Mountains.
(b) The Rocky Mountains.
(c) The Blue Ridge Mountains.
(d) The Guadalupe Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cantu find two tired immigrants camped out on the reservation on page 38?

2. What does the woman from Guadalajara tell Cantu and Mortenson she aspires to on page 37?

3. On page 76, what does Cantu's mother tell him she is worried about apart from his safety on his job?

4. When was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo enacted?

5. What tradition do Cantu and his mother perform every Christmas Eve?

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