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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. How many derailments does Enrique's train average a month?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

2. What does Enrique do to escape his attackers?
(a) He hides.
(b) He jumps from the moving train.
(c) He crawls inside a box car.
(d) He screams for help.

3. Why does Diaz decide to help Enrique?
(a) He does it as a favor for Mayor Carrasco.
(b) Diaz knows that burying Enrique would cost more than taking him to the local doctor.
(c) He does it because he has a son Enrique's age.
(d) He feels like it's his calling to help migrants.

4. How many Central American immigrants get help from a smuggler?
(a) 25% .
(b) 100%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 50%.

5. In Chapter 4, the impetus to help migrants comes from whom?
(a) Enrique.
(b) La migra.
(c) The local bishop, Hipólito Reyes Larios.
(d) The local police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Enrique assaulted?

2. What does Enrique do after making it off the train?

3. Why does María del Carmen Ortega García help migrants?

4. What does Villanueva do when local police conduct sweeps to find migrants?

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

(see the answer key)

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