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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue - Chapter 1: "The Boy Left Behind".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Santos?
(a) Santos stays home to help care for the baby.
(b) Santos moves across the United States.
(c) Santos is deported to Honduras and is never heard from again.
(d) Santos marries Lourdes.

2. How old is Diana when Santos returns to Lourdes?
(a) Six.
(b) Nine.
(c) Ten.
(d) Four.

3. What is the average age of the child caught by the Border Patrol?
(a) 13.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 7.

4. How does Enrique behave at school?
(a) He makes straight As.
(b) He studies hard to make his mother proud.
(c) He is the perfect student.
(d) He is a troublemaker.

5. What is Lourdes' first job in the United States?
(a) She works at the airport.
(b) She sorts tomatoes at a small factory.
(c) She is a waitress.
(d) She is a nanny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do many Honduran mothers pull their children from school?

2. How much money per month does Lourdes pay to live in a converted carport?

3. How did most of the immigrants Nazario talked to make it to the U.S.?

4. What habit does Enrique develop?

5. According to Nazario, how many immigrants enter the United States illegally each year?

(see the answer key)

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