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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. Francisca Aguirre Juárez sometimes does what to gain support of the local police?
(a) Pays them.
(b) Talks to them.
(c) Gives them clothing.
(d) Feeds them.

2. 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.

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

4. What does Villanueva do when local police conduct sweeps to find migrants?
(a) He turns the migrants in, but he fights to free them.
(b) He hides them at his house.
(c) He protects any migrants who run into the church.
(d) He turns the migrants in, and he prays for them.

5. What attracted more immigrants to the U.S. in 2012?
(a) An upturn in the economy.
(b) Invitations from government officials.
(c) Lack of border patrol.
(d) Changes in immigration laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much more money do the smugglers ask Enrique's mother for after he crosses the border?

2. Why does María del Carmen Ortega García help migrants?

3. How old was Enrique when he had to start working?

4. Where does the brick maker suggest Enrique take a bus past the nearby checkpoint?

5. Given in Chapter 4, what is Enrique's first gift?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems arise with Enrique and Maria Isabel in the Epilogue?

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

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

4. How are the residents of Veracruz described in Chapter 4?

5. What happens when Enrique is arrested in Jacksonville, Florida? Where is he taken?

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

7. What leads Maria Isabel to move back to her mother's home? How does this move affect her?

8. How does Enrique ultimately avoid deportation?

9. What vices does Enrique engage in throughout the narrative? What problems do they cause him?

10. When Enrique is captured sleeping on the Texas-bound train in Chapter 4, what do the police do to him?

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