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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. What was the name of the girl who tried to seduce Ted in return for her legalization documents?

2. What kind of door was it that frightened Timoteo?

3. What medical condition did Timoteo say he had that would make it dangerous to fly?

4. How did the men tell Ted they planned to get to Las Angeles?

5. What kind of fence was there in front of the house Ted was taken to by the coyotes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What answers did Ted and Alonso give when a businessman asked them where they were going?

2. 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?

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

4. Why did Ted stop to pick up the group early on the day they were to depart for the airport and what did he find?

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

6. Describe Alonso's first illegal crossing of the border.

7. 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?

8. What is Lupe Sanchez's role with the illegals?

9. What did Alonso say about dreams in America? What did he mean?

10. What do the Mexicans think when the flight attendant offers them drinks and what do they do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the trip through the airport. What aspects of the trip did the Mexicans find unnerving? Why hadn't Ted thought to warn them about each?

Essay Topic 2

Ted pointed out that once he and Alonso had reached America, he was more relaxed while Alonso was more nervous. Compare the actions and emotions of the two men and the reasons for the differences.

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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