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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) Gives them clothing.
(c) Talks to them.
(d) Feeds them.

2. How are the residents of Mexico City described in their behavior toward the migrants?
(a) They are intense in their hatred for the migrants.
(b) They offer the migrants money and food.
(c) They are neither friendly nor helpful.
(d) They are overly friendly and helpful.

3. How old is Lourdes' boyfriend's son whom he smuggles into the U.S. in Chapter 7?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 13.
(d) 14.

4. Who witnesses the robbery, along with Diana, in the Epilogue?
(a) Belky.
(b) Lourdes.
(c) Enrique.
(d) Jasmin.

5. What does 30 pesos equal in American currency?
(a) $10.
(b) $3.
(c) $6.
(d) $30.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Enrique and the other migrants cross the river in Chapter 6?

2. Where does Enrique's family move in order to make more money in Chapter 7?

3. What is the first job Enrique gets in America?

4. What object of his mother's does Enrique sell to pawn in the Epilogue?

5. Whom does the radio host fly over from Honduras for his show in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does El Tirindaro get Enrique across the border to the U.S.?

2. How does Jasmin cross into the United States?

3. What is Enrique's relationship to the brick maker? What advice does the brick maker give Enrique?

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

5. How is Maria Isabel transported into the U.S.?

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

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

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

9. Who is Hipolito Reyes Larios and what is his role in the narrative?

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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