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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 do migrants call Chiapas?
(a) They call it the beast.
(b) They call it the easy part of the journey.
(c) They call it a place they love.
(d) They call it the promise land.

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

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

4. What IS NOT one of the dangers associated with the train tracks in Chiapas?
(a) Grass grows over the rails
(b) The rail ties sink in the rainy season.
(c) They are new and allow trains to go fast.
(d) The tracks are 20 years old.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enrique do after making it off the train?

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

3. When Enrique flags down a down a car after being released from the hospital, what does the driver do?

4. Why does Lourdes fear having a smuggler get her childen over the border?

5. What happens to María's plan to go after Enrique?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What has led to Enrique’s injuries in the opening of Chapter 2?

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

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