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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mayor in Chapter 2 do for Enrique?
(a) He has him sent back to Honduras.
(b) He calls his mother so she can come get him.
(c) He drags out a wooden church pew for Enrique to lie down.
(d) He takes him to jail.

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

3. What long-term effect may Enrique have from his concussion in Chapter 2?
(a) Loss of vision.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) A drooping eyelid.
(d) Epilepsy.

4. How many migrants who arrive at the Albergue Belén shelter in Tapachula, on average, are robbed, beaten, or extorted by police?
(a) All of them are robbed, beaten, or extorted.
(b) One out of three are robbed, beaten, or extorted.
(c) None of them are robbed, beaten, or extorted
(d) Four out of five are robbed, beaten, or extorted.

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

6. What do migrants call Chiapas?
(a) They call it the easy part of the journey.
(b) They call it the beast.
(c) They call it the promise land.
(d) They call it a place they love.

7. How old is Diana when Santos returns to Lourdes?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Nine.
(d) Six.

8. María Isabel does not feel well, which causes her to do what?
(a) She becomes very ill.
(b) She goes to the doctor.
(c) She has to go to the emergency room.
(d) She quits school.

9. What happens to María's plan to go after Enrique?
(a) Enrique comes home, so she does not have to go find him.
(b) She is talked out of it by her family.
(c) Her friend backs out.
(d) She does not have the money to go.

10. How many families live in the hamlet of Las Anonas?
(a) 50.
(b) 36.
(c) 75.
(d) 100.

11. Who are madrinas?
(a) They are men who help migrants.
(b) They are men who threaten migrants with machetes.
(c) They are migrants themselves
(d) They are local priests.

12. Why is one reason the people of Chiapas ARE NOT fed up with Central American migrants?
(a) They are bring disease, prostitution, and crime.
(b) They contribute to the local economy.
(c) They are afraid the gunfire from la migra will hit them.
(d) They are poorer than Mexicans and ignorant.

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

14. What do the bandits do once the day's robberies are over?
(a) They go home to their families.
(b) They go to the police station to share their loot.
(c) They go to work at their night shift jobs.
(d) They go to Huixtla to drink and visit prostitutes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of migrants who board the train are children?

2. What is they nickname Nazario uses for the train in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 2, it is March 24, 2000. How long has Enrique been without his mom?

4. How many estimated children enter the United States illegally without either parent?

5. How many gangs control the tops of freight trains that operate north of the Río Suchiate?

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