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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is hit first of Ted's group?

2. What was the name of Martin's wife?

3. What kind of fence was there in front of the house Ted was taken to by the coyotes?

4. What was the name of the man who is giving Alonso a job?

5. What nickname did Ted use to refer to Phoenix?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Alonso's first illegal crossing of the border.

2. Describe the life of the bag lady Ted met in the donut shop.

3. What is Lupe Sanchez's role with the illegals?

4. What answers did Ted and Alonso give when a businessman asked them where they were going?

5. Why did Ted stop to pick up the group early on the day they were to depart for the airport and what did he find?

6. Why did the first coyote say his prices were high?

7. List two points at which the members of the group were especially nervous while traveling through the airport terminal.

8. What did Nate say to Ted that made him work much faster and why did it work on Ted?

9. Explain how Victor and the others of his group decided to travel to America?

10. What did Ted say he'd first thought when he discovered that a man was seated at his table, eating his pancakes? What did he come to realize about the man eating his pancakes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were some of the ways the Mexicans entertained themselves in America? Compare those to their entertainments in Mexico.

Essay Topic 2

Compare what happeed to Ted when the group is arrested in Mexico to the situation that occurred when they were arrested in Utah.

Essay Topic 3

Compare what Ted learned about the Mexicans who traveled to America with what he learned about the families they left behind. What were the similarities? The differences?

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