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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. How much money did the Coyotes collect?

2. How much water did Mendez share with the walkers?

3. How did Don Moi feel to hear the travelers laughing on the bus?

4. To what did Mendez allegedly attribute the strange lights at Bluebird Pass?

5. How did the walkers evade the Border Patrol's drag system the first time Mendez crossed the Devil's Highway?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the toilets of budget border motels incapable of doing?

2. Why did the Cercas gang like working with brothers?

3. How does Urrea describe Reymundo Sr.'s treatment of his son?

4. How did getting lost affect the walkers' opinion of the human smugglers?

5. How did Maradona change the Coyotes' plans at the last minute?

6. Why did Mendez tell the men to pretend that they were going to San Luis?

7. What disagreement emerges between Santos and Mendez?

8. What happened to the Coyotes after they abandoned the walkers?

9. What geographical feature did Mendez get lost in, as if it were a maze?

10. Why were officials skeptical when Mendez claimed that he planned to return for the walkers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

High rates of immigration can bring demographic change, revealing ethnic tensions. Write an essay exploring Urrea's rhetoric regarding race and ethnicity, tracing the relationship between racial attitudes and immigration policy.

Essay Topic 2

Though The Devil's Highway is a non-fiction book, in incorporates many poeticized and fictionalized passages. Choose one or more passages from the book incorporating a poetic or literary technique such as stanzas, dialogue, metaphor, personification, symbolism, or character development. Explain how the technique is used in the passage, both justifying your choice as an example of the technique specified and analyzing the effect the technique's usage has on the reader. Conclude by explaining how the use of this technique impacts the book's truthfulness.

Essay Topic 3

The governments of the United States and Mexico both have their foundations in European colonization. How is that history reflected within the pages of The Devil's Highway? Conduct your own research to select a working definition of colonialism. Explore interactions within the text that reflect your definition of colonialism and conclude by interpreting the role colonialism plays.

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