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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. How many estimated children enter the United States illegally without either parent?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 48,000.
(d) 10,000.

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

3. 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 a place they love.
(d) They call it the promise land.

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

5. 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 feels like it's his calling to help migrants.
(d) He does it as a favor for Mayor Carrasco.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do children traveling to the United States plan to find their mothers?

3. Who is Diana?

4. How does Enrique behave at school?

5. What happens to most children who set out on the journey to find their mothers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why has Enrique not traveled in the company of gangsters on his current trip in Chapter 3?

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

5. How is Enrique treated by Carlos Carrasco when he arrives in his town in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

9. How was Enrique captured during his first attempt to travel north?

10. What dangers do female migrants face and how do they address those dangers?

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