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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. La Arrocera is known as what among the migrants?
(a) It is known as the most dreaded immigration checkpoint in Mexico.
(b) It is known as the best stop along the journey.
(c) It is known as a safe place.
(d) It is known as a place where migrants will be helped.

2. What happens to María's plan to go after Enrique?
(a) Her friend backs out.
(b) Enrique comes home, so she does not have to go find him.
(c) She does not have the money to go.
(d) She is talked out of it by her family.

3. How does Enrique behave at school?
(a) He is a troublemaker.
(b) He studies hard to make his mother proud.
(c) He is the perfect student.
(d) He makes straight As.

4. What habit does Enrique develop?
(a) He pulls at his hair.
(b) He stutters.
(c) He becomes addicted to sniffing glue.
(d) He bites his nails.

5. How did most of the immigrants Nazario talked to make it to the U.S.?
(a) They took an airplane.
(b) They drove.
(c) They took a bus.
(d) They road the top of trains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What IS NOT one of the dangers associated with the train tracks in Chiapas?

2. María Isabel does not feel well, which causes her to do what?

3. What does Enrique lose in the assault?

4. What do migrants call Chiapas?

5. According to Nazario, how many immigrants enter the United States illegally each year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Enrique escape apprehension when he reaches La Arrocera in Chapter 3?

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

5. What does Guillermina Galvez Lopez relate to the author in Chapter 3?

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

7. Discuss the genre of this book. How is that genre presented stylistically?

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

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

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

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