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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does María Isabel pray?
(a) She prays she is not pregnant.
(b) She prays she can join Enrique on his journey.
(c) She prays she is pregnant with twins.
(d) She prays that Mexican Immigration authorities will catch Enrique and bring him back to Honduras.

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

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 would hurt or abandon them.
(c) She worries the smuggler might try to marry one of them.
(d) She worries the smuggler would sell them into child trafficking.

4. Who does Mayor Carrasco ask for help?
(a) He asks la migra.
(b) He asks the mayor of San Pedro Taanatepec.
(c) He asks a local doctor.
(d) He asks the local police.

5. How did most of the immigrants Nazario talked to make it to the U.S.?
(a) They drove.
(b) They road the top of trains.
(c) They took an airplane.
(d) They took a bus.

6. What does Enrique have on his shins in Chapter 3?
(a) He has long socks.
(b) He has poison ivy.
(c) He has his mother's phone number.
(d) He has scars from boarding moving trains.

7. Who is the mayor of San Pedro Taanatepec?
(a) Carlos Carrasco.
(b) Karla Yamileth Chavez.
(c) Adan Diaz Ruiz.
(d) Guillermo Toledo Montes.

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

9. In what border town do migrants usually try to cross the river?
(a) They try to cross in Técun Umán.
(b) They try to cross In Chiapas.
(c) They try to cross in Oaxaca.
(d) They try to cross in Vera Cruz.

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

11. How many attempts has Enrique made to get to the United States?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

12. Who tells Nazario of migrants to hurt themselves by running into electrified fences and other ways before coming to his house near the tracks?
(a) Karla Yamileth Chavez .
(b) Olga Sanchez Martinez.
(c) Guillermina Galvez Lopez.
(d) Maria La Arrocera.

13. On his eighth trip through Chiapas, where does Enrique decide to sleep?
(a) He sleeps in the train station.
(b) He sleeps at someone's house.
(c) He sleeps in the cemetery.
(d) He sleeps in a clump of grass.

14. What allows Enrique to sleep behind the black iron gates in Chapter 3?
(a) He has been there so many times they just allow him to come inside.
(b) He has a relationship with one of the members of a gang.
(c) He is a kid, so they want to protect him.
(d) He pays them.

15. What is Lourdes' first job in the United States?
(a) She sorts tomatoes at a small factory.
(b) She is a waitress.
(c) She is a nanny.
(d) She works at the airport.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Diaz decide to help Enrique?

2. Who is the doctor that sees Enrique in Chapter 2?

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

4. Why is one reason the people of Chiapas ARE NOT fed up with Central American migrants?

5. María Isabel does not feel well, which causes her to do what?

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