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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: "A Dark River, Perhaps a New Life" - Chapter 7: "The Girl Left Behind".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Lourdes when she arrives in Los Angeles?
(a) She catches a flight to Miami.
(b) Her smuggler leaves her.
(c) She goes back to Honduras.
(d) She goes to work in the airport.

2. What did the World Bank study in 2000 reveal?
(a) That residents can deduct giving from their taxes.
(b) That this is one of the richest areas in North America.
(c) That people have extra money to give.
(d) That 42.5% of the people of Mexico's 100 million people live on $2 or less a day.

3. Why does Lourdes fear having a smuggler get her childen over the border?
(a) She worries the smuggler would hurt or abandon them.
(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 sell them into child trafficking.

4. What other nickname does Nazario share for the train?
(a) The Train of Despair.
(b) The Train That Devours.
(c) The Train of Distance.
(d) The Train of Death.

5. What is the youngest child Enrique has encountered on the trains?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much more money do the smugglers ask Enrique's mother for after he crosses the border?

2. How old is Soledad Vasquez?

3. Francisca Aguirre Juárez sometimes does what to gain support of the local police?

4. From the top of the rolling freight car in Chapter 4, what does Enrique see?

5. On what date does Enrique await crossing the border in the opening of Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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