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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Lourdes plan to stay in the United States?
(a) She plans to stay for one year.
(b) She plans to stay for six months.
(c) She plans to stay for five years.
(d) She plans to stay forever.

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

3. What is Enrique wearing when he first appears in Chapter 2?
(a) A bathrobe.
(b) Only underwear.
(c) A pair of overalls.
(d) A wooden bucket.

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

5. After Díaz decides to help Enrique, he turns him over to his driver. On the way to the doctor, the are approached by a municipal officer. What startles Enrique about this encounter?
(a) The officer is one of Enrique's relatives.
(b) He saw the officer on the train.
(c) He was robbed by the same policeman the day before.
(d) He knows the officer from Honduras.

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

7. To what gang does the gangster belong that sleeps next to Enrique in Chapter 3?
(a) The Gulf Cartel.
(b) The Beltrán-Leyva gang.
(c) The Los Antrax gang.
(d) The Mara Salvatrucha gang.

8. According to Nazario, how many immigrants enter the United States illegally each year?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 700,000.

9. What happens to Lourdes when she arrives in Los Angeles?
(a) She goes back to Honduras.
(b) Her smuggler leaves her.
(c) She goes to work in the airport.
(d) She catches a flight to Miami.

10. Who is Santos?
(a) Santos is Lourdes' boyfriend from Honduras.
(b) Santos is a colleague.
(c) Santos is a neighbor.
(d) Santos is Lourdes' boss.

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

12. What do the police do after they raid the cemetery?
(a) They take Enrique and the migrants to jail.
(b) They let Enrique and the migrants go.
(c) They assault Enrique and the migrants.
(d) They call the migrants' mothers.

13. How does Enrique escape la migra?
(a) He bribes them.
(b) He climbs on top of a bicycle and jumps the wall.
(c) He walks out the front door.
(d) He beats up the officers and runs.

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

15. Enrique's grandmother writes a letter to Lourdes. What does it say?
(a) Enrique is a joy, and she is excited to have him staying with her.
(b) Lourdes needs to come home.
(c) Lourdes must find Enrique another home.
(d) She is very sick, and she might not survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are boxcars dangerous to ride atop?

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

3. With whom does Maria Isabel love when she meets Enrique?

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

5. Which of the answers below IS NOT one of the rules Enrique has learned about Chiapas?

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