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

2. What does Enrique decide he is going to do after he robs his family?
(a) He is going to go find his mother.
(b) He is going to apologize to his grandmother and move back home.
(c) He is going to get a job and buy a home.
(d) He is going to marry María Isabel.

3. Who are madrinas?
(a) They are men who help migrants.
(b) They are migrants themselves
(c) They are local priests.
(d) They are men who threaten migrants with machetes.

4. What happens to most children who set out on the journey to find their mothers?
(a) They find their mothers.
(b) They go to college in the United States.
(c) They do not make it.
(d) They become United States citizens.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the gangster sleeping next to Enrique in Chapter 3 whisper, "wake up?"

3. What do migrants call Chiapas?

4. Why is one reason the people of Chiapas ARE NOT fed up with Central American migrants?

5. Who does Mayor Carrasco ask for help?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when Enrique takes a ride from a passing driver in Chapter 2?

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

6. What plans did Sonia Nazario make for her research journey before setting out?

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

8. Who is Minor and what information is related from him in the Prologue?

9. How is Enrique treated by the locals after his injuries are treated in Chapter 2?

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

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