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

2. 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 knows the officer from Honduras.
(c) He saw the officer on the train.
(d) He was robbed by the same policeman the day before.

3. What does Enrique say he plans to do once he is released from the hospital in Chapter 2?
(a) He plans to stay in Las Anonas.
(b) He plans to try to call his mother.
(c) He plans to get on another train.
(d) He plans to go home.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Enrique wearing when he first appears in Chapter 2?

2. What does the mayor in Chapter 2 do for Enrique?

3. On average, how many migrants do Ariaga's Red Cross workers retrieve?

4. To whom does the field worker that discovers him direct Enrique?

5. Where does Enrique go to live after he leaves his grandmother's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Olga Sanchez Martinez and what does she do?

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

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

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

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

6. How is the theme of family disintegration illustrated through Maria Isabel in Chapter 2?

7. When does Enrique begin working? What does he do? Why must he work?

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

9. Who are the majority of the migrants who brave riding on the trains? Why?

10. How is Lourdes' journey into the United States described?

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