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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of dangerous animal does Cole tell Cantu and his colleagues to look out for on page 32?
(a) A mongoose.
(b) A rattlesnake.
(c) A bear.
(d) A mountain lion.

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

4. What tradition do Cantu and his mother perform every Christmas Eve?
(a) They trim the tree.
(b) They pass out candy to the neighborhood children.
(c) They each open one present from the other.
(d) They volunteer at a local soup kitchen.

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

6. Who is Cantu's supervisor at his new job in intelligence at the Border Patrol office in Tucson?
(a) Manuel.
(b) Beto.
(c) Hayward.
(d) Morales.

7. What does Cantu's first supervisor tell him he should try to do with the customs agents?
(a) Learn their job so that he could move into one of those positions as a promotion.
(b) Learn how to access their computer systems so they can share useful information.
(c) Bribe them.
(d) Make friends with them.

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

9. 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) Migrant children looking for their parents in the desert.
(c) Dead migrants who have not made it out of the desert alive.
(d) Migrants who have been bitten by poisonous snakes.

10. Where did Cantu's mother work for almost her entire career?
(a) The U.S. State Department.
(b) The Wild Rangers Service.
(c) The U.S. Air Force.
(d) The U.S. National Park Service.

11. Where did the man and his wife that Cantu picks up on the reservation on page 39 come to the U.S. from?
(a) Jurez.
(b) The Yucatan.
(c) Morelos.
(d) Columbia.

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

13. What does Cole do with the hand sanitizer he asks the Border Patrol agents for on page 32?
(a) Taunts a migrant with it.
(b) Empties it into the sand.
(c) Lights a cactus on fire.
(d) Throws it in someone's eyes.

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

15. What are Border Patrol agents instructed to do with water, food, and other belongings they find that migrants have left in the desert?
(a) Take anything they want or need for themselves.
(b) Destroy everything.
(c) Donate everything to charity.
(d) Tag everything for evidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which treaty modified the border delineation between Mexico and the U.S. in 1853?

2. How do other agents refer to the village Adam and his wife live in?

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. What does Cantu tell the young boys who lost one of their party in the desert NOT to do if they decide to try to cross the border again?

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