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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of Jose's jobs?
(a) He maintains the mercado grounds where Cantu also works.
(b) He is an accountant for local businesses.
(c) He is a sanitation worker for the city.
(d) He is a security guard at a mall.

2. On page 111, what kind of bird does Cantu see on one of his monitor cameras?
(a) A prairie falcon.
(b) A red-tailed hawk.
(c) A bald eagle.
(d) A blue heron.

3. On page 106, what does researcher Molly Molloy believe about the reporting on the statistics of homicides in Mexico since 2007?
(a) It is likely that the Mexican president himself was involved in distorting the reported number of homicides.
(b) It is likely that more homicides have occurred only in Juarez.
(c) It is likely that the number of homicides is exaggerated.
(d) It is likely only a fraction of the number of homicides have been reported.

4. What does Jung say it means if one dreams of a savage animal?
(a) You are angry.
(b) You are afraid.
(c) You should plant a tree.
(d) The animal wants to come to you.

5. Why does Jose go back to Mexico for several weeks on page 176?
(a) His mother is dying and he wants to see her and be with her.
(b) He wants to interview for a job there.
(c) He has a home there he is selling.
(d) He needs to pick up some important documents he left there.

6. Who is the woman who owns the mercado where Jose works?
(a) Lisa.
(b) Holly.
(c) Denise.
(d) Diane.

7. Why does Jose have problems getting back into the U.S. from Mexico?
(a) He had lost his green card.
(b) His passport was expired.
(c) He is an undocumented immigrant and was stopped at the border and detained.
(d) He was carrying drugs into the country.

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

9. On page 117, what does Cantu dream about that is disturbing?
(a) His teeth rotting out.
(b) A cave littered with body parts.
(c) Finding bodies in the desert.
(d) His mother's death.

10. Who does Cantu call in Border Patrol to try to see if he can help Jose?
(a) Morales.
(b) Beto.
(c) Smith.
(d) Hayward.

11. What does Carl Jung write towards the end of his life that Cantu cites on page 163?
(a) It is always useful to have someone on a lower run that oneself.
(b) We are again living in an age filled with apocalyptic images of universal destruction.
(c) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by.
(d) Man has always had the capacity for war.

12. Which Italian filmmaker participated in the interviews with the former hit man for the drug cartels in 2008?
(a) Frances Ford Coppola.
(b) Matteo Baggheti.
(c) Gianfranco Rosi.
(d) Franco Zefferelli.

13. Who are Cantu's new colleagues in El Paso?
(a) Beto and Manuel.
(b) Manuel and Roberto.
(c) Luis and Beto.
(d) Beto and Roberto.

14. Which organization began an investigation into the large-scale killings of women in Juarez in 2004?
(a) Doctors Without Borders.
(b) Heifer.
(c) Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.
(d) Amnesty International.

15. What does one woman being sentenced in immigration court tell the judge that prompts him to say someone will see her at the detention facility?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She has lost her diabetes medication.
(c) She has cancer.
(d) She has a heart condition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beto tell Cantu about his aspirations for a career when he was a child?

2. What does Hayward tell Cantu about his own experience in the field that makes Cantu see Hayward in a different light on page 145?

3. In 2008, which of the following writers conducted interviews with a former cartel hit man?

4. Why does one of Jose's sons have trouble recognizing him in the courtroom?

5. Where is Jose originally from?

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