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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Olga Sanchez Martinez.
(b) Guillermina Galvez Lopez.
(c) Maria La Arrocera.
(d) Karla Yamileth Chavez .

2. What can happen to migrants when boxcars are locked from the outside?
(a) People can open the windows for ventilation.
(b) People can ask for help from the conductor if conditions are uncomfortable.
(c) People can access water from inside.
(d) People can overheat, suffocate, and die.

3. To whom does the field worker that discovers him direct Enrique?
(a) He directs him to la migra.
(b) He directs him to Carlos Carrasco.
(c) He directs him to a migrant camp.
(d) He directs him to his home where he helps him.

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

5. 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) Four out of five are robbed, beaten, or extorted.
(c) One out of three are robbed, beaten, or extorted.
(d) None of them are robbed, beaten, or extorted

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enrique have on his shins in Chapter 3?

2. Who are madrinas?

3. Who tells Maria's mother about her plan to seek out Enrique in Chapter 3?

4. What happens to Santos?

5. How did most of the immigrants Nazario talked to make it to the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

1. How old is Lourdes when she leaves her children? Why does she leave them?

2. What does Sonia Nazario learn about her housekeeper that leads her to write this book?

3. With whom does Lourdes leave her children? Why?

4. How does Enrique escape his incarceration in Chapter 3?

5. What advice does the doctor give Enrique in Chapter 2?

6. What does Enrique do upon arriving at Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico?

7. How was Enrique captured in each of his previous attempts to travel north, according to the author in Chapter 2?

8. What are the extent of Enrique's injuries in Chapter 2? Who treats him?

9. Why is Chiapas referred to as the beast by the migrants?

10. With whom does Enrique stay at the cemetery in Chapter 3? How is this individual described?

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