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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: "Gifts and Faith" - Chapter 5: "On the Border".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lourdes fear having a smuggler get her childen over the border?
(a) She worries the smuggler would sell them into child trafficking.
(b) She worries the smuggler might try to marry one of them.
(c) She worries the smuggler would swindle them.
(d) She worries the smuggler would hurt or abandon them.

2. In the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, what does Enrique receive?
(a) Sickness.
(b) Hoplessness.
(c) Gifts.
(d) Depression.

3. Why are people more likely to help in Oaxaca and Veracruz?
(a) They all tried to make the journey themselves.
(b) They do it for money.
(c) Many say that it is rooted in the Zapotec and Mixtec indigenous cultures.
(d) They do it for praise.

4. What does Enrique do when the migra agents spot him on top of the train in Chapter 3?
(a) He hides.
(b) He surrenders to la migra.
(c) He leaps from car to car, and then leaps off the train.
(d) He and some friends fight back.

5. To whom does the field worker that discovers him direct Enrique?
(a) He directs him to Carlos Carrasco.
(b) He directs him to la migra.
(c) He directs him to a migrant camp.
(d) He directs him to his home where he helps him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the answers below IS NOT one of the rules Enrique has learned about Chiapas?

2. After Díaz decides to help Enrique, he turns him over to his driver. On the way to the doctor, the are approached by a municipal officer. What startles Enrique about this encounter?

3. Why does the gangster sleeping next to Enrique in Chapter 3 whisper, "wake up?"

4. Why does María del Carmen Ortega García help migrants?

5. To whom does the priest, Ignacio Villanueva Areteaga, point as another refugee?

(see the answer key)

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