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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. How does Belky react to her mother's disappearance?
(a) She is glad she is gone.
(b) She is devastated, but she knows she should be thankful to her mother for being willing to go.
(c) She does not even notice.
(d) She is angry.

2. How long did Sonia Nazario spend traveling in Honduras, Mexico, and the United States for the book?
(a) She spent one year.
(b) She spent six months.
(c) She spent three weeks.
(d) She spent two years.

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

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

5. How many estimated children enter the United States illegally without either parent?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 75,000.
(d) 48,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do children traveling to the United States plan to find their mothers?

2. Enrique's grandmother writes a letter to Lourdes. What does it say?

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

4. What happens to most children who set out on the journey to find their mothers?

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

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