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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do Border Patrol agents destroy migrants' belongings they find in the desert?
(a) To clean up the desert, per their orders.
(b) Because they resent the migrants so much.
(c) To discourage the migrants from continuing their journey.
(d) To make sure they continue to think of migrants as less than human.

3. What does the elderly man from Michoacan ask Cantu if he can do while he wants to be deported on page 31?
(a) Call his wife to tell her he is safe.
(b) Play cards with Cantu.
(c) Eat a dinner he brought in his backpack.
(d) Any kind of work in the border patrol station.

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

5. How long does Cantu spend in training in his Border Patrol unit on page 35?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 1 year.

6. What does Cantu want to tell Adam on the phone but holds himself back from suggesting?
(a) He should leave the church he has been a member of his entire life.
(b) He should install new locks and deadbolts on all his doors.
(c) He should take his family and move somewhere else, far from the border.
(d) He should make sure he always carries a gun.

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

8. Who was Hart's roommate who dropped out of Border Patrol training?
(a) Dominguez.
(b) Wesson.
(c) Morales.
(d) Smith.

9. Who climbed to a peak south of the international boundary line in 1706 and realized California was connected to Mexico?
(a) Christopher Columbus.
(b) Guadalupe Hidalgo.
(c) Oscar Romero.
(d) Father Eusebio Kino.

10. 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) It may seem boring compared to field work.
(c) The shift work may be difficult to adjust to.
(d) His ears might ring from wearing headphones all day.

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

12. 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) A cake.
(b) Bread.
(c) Skittles.
(d) Soda.

13. 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.

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

15. What kind of case is more paperwork that involves drugs found at the border?
(a) A smuggling case with more than 10 ounces of drugs.
(b) A smuggling case involving heroin.
(c) A smuggling case with live suspects.
(d) A smuggling case involving cocaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Cantu's supervisor at his new job in intelligence at the Border Patrol office in Tucson?

2. What do the Border Patrol agents who have processed dead bodies tell Cantu is the worst thing about the work?

3. According to Cantu, why do so many bodies in the morgue in Juarez remain unclaimed?

4. What mountain range along the West Texas border do Cantu and his mother stop at during their Thanksgiving trip on page 3?

5. Why does Adam flag down Cantu as Cantu drives through the reservation on page 67?

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