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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10. The Long Walk - 14. Helicopters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important relationship did Jesus make while hiding from the sun in the border hotel?
(a) His partner, Maradona.
(b) His girlfriend, Celia Mendez.
(c) His partner, Santos.
(d) His boss, Don Moi.

2. Why did the Border Patrol agents call Mendez "Rooster Boy"?
(a) He had a distinctive red forelock.
(b) He was trying to catch and eat a rooster when they intercepted him.
(c) He would scream every morning at the crack of dawn.
(d) They started off calling him "Hen Boy" but he complained that it was emasculating.

3. What was unfamiliar about the place names Jesus encountered in Sonoita?
(a) They came from Indian languages.
(b) They came from Asian languages.
(c) They came from the Spanish language.
(d) They came from the English language.

4. What was the nationality of the first group of undocumented immigrants hunted by American Border Patrol in the 1880s?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Mexican.
(c) Jamaican.
(d) Canadian.

5. What structure did the walkers have to cross to get into America?
(a) A twenty-foot wall.
(b) A highly-guarded tunnel.
(c) A giant moat.
(d) A collapsed barbed-wire fence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What garment became a "torture device" (138) in the desert sun?

2. Why does Urrea dismiss the possibility that the lights came from a "rogue" Border Patrol agent?

3. What happened to the walkers right after they ran into the desert at Bluebird Pass?

4. Why did the men travel so slowly up the sandy desert hills?

5. How long were the walkers told to wait for their Coyotes?

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