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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. Why does Lourdes fear having a smuggler get her childen over the border?
(a) She worries the smuggler would hurt or abandon them.
(b) She worries the smuggler would sell them into child trafficking.
(c) She worries the smuggler would swindle them.
(d) She worries the smuggler might try to marry one of them.

2. What does Enrique do to escape his attackers?
(a) He screams for help.
(b) He jumps from the moving train.
(c) He crawls inside a box car.
(d) He hides.

3. 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) He was robbed by the same policeman the day before.
(b) He knows the officer from Honduras.
(c) The officer is one of Enrique's relatives.
(d) He saw the officer on the train.

4. What is the youngest child Enrique has encountered on the trains?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the gangster that sleeps next to Enrique in Chapter 3?

3. What happens to officials who try to stop the abuse of immigrants?

4. In Chapter 2, it is March 24, 2000. How long has Enrique been without his mom?

5. What is Lourdes' first job in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the author introduce the theme of family in the book's Prologue?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where is Enrique's family from? How is this setting described?

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