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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. When does Enrique promise to Maria Isabel that he will return home in Chapter 7?
(a) Within two years.
(b) Within one year.
(c) Within six months.
(d) Within six years.

2. What does Maria Isabel name the daughter she has in Chapter 6?
(a) Maria Andreas.
(b) Anna Maria.
(c) Jennifer Anna.
(d) Katerin Jasmin.

3. At what time does Enrique show up at Lourdes' house on the day after Christmas to ask for money in the Epilogue?
(a) 5 a.m.
(b) 2 a.m.
(c) 3 a.m.
(d) 12 p.m.

4. In Chapter 4, the impetus to help migrants comes from whom?
(a) Enrique.
(b) The local police.
(c) The local bishop, Hipólito Reyes Larios.
(d) La migra.

5. In Chapter 4, some residents have decided that giving migrants food and prayer is not enough, so what do they do?
(a) They deport them.
(b) They open up their churches, invite them to stay in their homes, and, sometimes, protect them from police.
(c) They fly them to the United States.
(d) They take them back to their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is cooking in the kitchen at Lourdes' home when Enrique arrives in Chapter 6?

2. Enrique's mother demands that he stop doing what or he must leave the house in Chapter 7?

3. Where do Enrique and the migrants hide from border agents as they shine spotlights seeking to find them in Chapter 6?

4. On what date does Maria Isabel give birth to her first child?

5. Where was Enrique's mother the last time they spoke, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Enrique go about obtaining his mother's phone number in Chapter 5?

2. What causes the strife between Enrique and Lourdes after his arrival in the U.S.?

3. How does Nazario help Enrique's family after his arrest?

4. How does irony play out in the narrative in Chapter 6?

5. What protest at Nogales city hall is described in Chapter 4? What was the cause for the protest?

6. Where does Enrique arrive after crossing the border into the U.S.? Where is he taken next and by whom?

7. What robbery does Jasmin witness? Where does the robbery take place?

8. What convinces Maria Isabel to finally come to the U.S.?

9. How is the apartment complex where Enrique's family lives described in the Epilogue?

10. What hypocrisy between Mexican and U.S. immigration policies is pointed out in Chapter 4?

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