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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. Where does Enrique live when his initially mother leaves?
(a) He lives with his mother.
(b) He lives with Belky.
(c) He lives with a friend.
(d) He lives with his father, Luis.

2. What does Enrique decide he is going to do after he robs his family?
(a) He is going to go find his mother.
(b) He is going to get a job and buy a home.
(c) He is going to apologize to his grandmother and move back home.
(d) He is going to marry María Isabel.

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

4. What happens to Santos?
(a) Santos stays home to help care for the baby.
(b) Santos moves across the United States.
(c) Santos is deported to Honduras and is never heard from again.
(d) Santos marries Lourdes.

5. How do children traveling to the United States plan to find their mothers?
(a) They carry their mother's phone numbers with them on their journey.
(b) They will ask an officer for help at the immigration check point.
(c) They will call home and ask relatives to give them an address.
(d) They plan to email them once they make it across the U.S. border.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What fueled the wave of female immigrants' entry into the United States?

3. Who is Diana?

4. What is the average age of the child caught by the Border Patrol?

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

(see the answer key)

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