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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. Where did Ted meet Alonso?

2. What did Lupe Sanchez tell the men that Ted was going to do while he stayed with them at the orchard?

3. What nationality was the cab driver?

4. How much was the "fine" Alonso and Ted paidto the police who question them?

5. What did Ted find under the seat cover in Lupe Sanchez's truck?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Ted say about the traffic in Phoenix?

3. What did the first "coyote" offer Ted and Alonso?

4. How did Ted discover that pesticides were being used so freely on the citrus trees and what did he think of it?

5. Why did the situation change so dramatically once Martin's wife and son arrived?

6. What did Timoteo plan to take with him and why did Ted veto the idea?

7. Ted expected that the men shared a deep bond simply on the basis of their illegal status and the fact that they were all from Mexico. What did he say he eventually discovered about that?

8. What aspect of the trip through the airport did Ted believe to be most important? How did he address that?

9. Why did Ted not want to be the one to sleep on the bed his first night at the orchard and why did he eventually accept?

10. What wasTed's answer when the police first asked how he and Alonso know each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how Ted came to know Alonso and how the two crossed the border together. Ted said that he and Alonso don't look at each other as Alonso was taken off the bus in Texas. Why was that important to the two? What does this say about the character of each?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the "bag lady" Ted met in the donut shop. What did he learn about the lady and how did he come to know these facts? What was her reaction when she learned that no one else was willing to say that they'd seen the attack on Ted? What did this say about her as a person?

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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