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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cantu do for Beto when Beto goes away for several days on page 148?
(a) Do Beto's paperwork.
(b) Take care of Beto's dog.
(c) Look after Beto's elderly mother.
(d) Water Beto's plants.

2. What had just happened in Cantu's family right before he and his mother traveled to Mexico for the first time?
(a) Cantu's sister had just had a bone marrow transplant.
(b) Cantu's mother and father had just separated.
(c) Cantu's brother had just been born.
(d) Cantu's grandfather had just died.

3. Where is Jose originally from?
(a) Monterrey.
(b) Juarez.
(c) Oaxaca.
(d) Mexico City.

4. What is one of Jose's jobs?
(a) He is a security guard at a mall.
(b) He maintains the mercado grounds where Cantu also works.
(c) He is an accountant for local businesses.
(d) He is a sanitation worker for the city.

5. Where does Cantu's mother take him when they travel to Mexico together for the first time?
(a) Juarez.
(b) Tijuana.
(c) Mexico City.
(d) Casas Grandes in Chihuahua.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to writer Rivera Garza, what does fear do?

2. On page 133, what cosmic event does Cantu imagine his relatives having witnessed?

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

4. Why does one of Jose's sons have trouble recognizing him in the courtroom?

5. Who did the Mexican military capture in 2014 that Jose and Cantu talk about on page 171?

Short Essay Questions

1. On page 135, what does Cantu say became the hallmark of Ciudad Juarez sometime around the mid-1990s?

2. What are the three categories of metaphors that sociologist Jane Zavisca identified in media coverage of migrant deaths?

3. What was Cantu's original birth name, and why did Cantu's mother change his name?

4. How does Cantu get to know Jose, and how does their friendship grow?

5. What does Cantu tell Jose when Jose asks him if he ever found drugs at the border during his work for Border Patrol?

6. Why does Cantu tell Hayward he will likely stop working for Border Patrol on page 157?

7. What does Cantu write that Carl Jung said the meaning of a savage animal in a dream was?

8. Cantu's mother was surprised when she finally met her long-estranged father. Why?

9. What does the woman whose feet Cantu bandages tell him about himself pn page 154?

10. What does the sicario tell the interviewers started to happen in his personal life after years of working for the cartel?

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