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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. What does Villanueva do when local police conduct sweeps to find migrants?
(a) He hides them at his house.
(b) He turns the migrants in, and he prays for them.
(c) He protects any migrants who run into the church.
(d) He turns the migrants in, but he fights to free them.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what happens to Enrique?
(a) He wanders into Las Anonas bleeding and hurt.
(b) He gets a job in Oaxaca, Mexico.
(c) He arrives in America.
(d) He goes back home.

3. 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.

4. Why does the gangster sleeping next to Enrique in Chapter 3 whisper, "wake up?"
(a) It is time to go catch the train.
(b) A truck full of municipal police have arrived at the cemetery.
(c) He wants to talk.
(d) They are being surrounded by migrants who wish to rob them.

5. Who is the gangster that sleeps next to Enrique in Chapter 3?
(a) Big Daddy.
(b) Big Jack.
(c) Smarty.
(d) Jack the Knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the World Bank study in 2000 reveal?

2. Who does Mayor Carrasco ask for help?

3. In what border town do migrants usually try to cross the river?

4. Because of police brutality toward migrants, the people of El Campesino El Mirador told the mayor of Nogales to do what?

5. Why is Enrique careful not to fall asleep on the train?

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