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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue - Chapter 1: "The Boy Left Behind".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lourdes' first job in the United States?
(a) She sorts tomatoes at a small factory.
(b) She is a waitress.
(c) She works at the airport.
(d) She is a nanny.

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

3. What is the average age of the child caught by the Border Patrol?
(a) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 7.
(d) 13.

4. Why do many Honduran mothers pull their children from school?
(a) They do not value education.
(b) They have them watch siblings, work, or beg.
(c) They like to have them home to spend time with them.
(d) They want to homeschool them.

5. Enrique's grandmother writes a letter to Lourdes. What does it say?
(a) Enrique is a joy, and she is excited to have him staying with her.
(b) Lourdes must find Enrique another home.
(c) She is very sick, and she might not survive.
(d) Lourdes needs to come home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Diana?

2. With whom does Belky live when her mother leaves?

3. Of the children who enter the U.S. illegally, what percentage are looking for their mothers?

4. How did most of the immigrants Nazario talked to make it to the U.S.?

5. Where does Enrique go to live after he leaves his grandmother's house?

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