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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. Why does Cantu's relative say his house is littered with boxes on page 125?
(a) The relative does not have enough room to unpack all the things.
(b) The relative is storing boxes for a friend.
(c) The relative is leaving the country soon and does not want to go through the trouble of unpacking.
(d) The relative is renting temporarily until the relative can build a house soon.

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

3. What does the U.S. Marshal give to Diego, Jose's youngest son, outside the courtroom?
(a) The phone number of a good immigration lawyer.
(b) His own pin that says "United States Marshal."
(c) A lollipop.
(d) Some money.

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

5. How many children does Jose have?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cantu's grandfather's name?

2. What kind of job does Cantu work in on page 167?

3. Which organization began an investigation into the large-scale killings of women in Juarez in 2004?

4. On page 155, what does the sicario tell his interviewers about his dreams?

5. What happens to Jose's middle son that Jose tells Cantu he is worried about on page 168?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jose and his family come to be connected with his private defense attorney, Elizabeth Green?

2. Why is Lupe, Jose's wife, not able to visit the detention center where he is being held awaiting a final decision on his case?

3. What does the sicario, or hit man for a cartel, tell Charles Bowden was an important symbolic part of disposing of the bodies of the people he killed?

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

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

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

7. What does Beto tell Cantu he thinks is a harbinger of death in his family on page 120?

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

9. What did Mexican president Felipe Calderon base his campaign on?

10. What does Hayward tell Cantu's new colleagues in Tucson, Beto and Manuel, about Cantu's skills?

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