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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can happen to migrants when boxcars are locked from the outside?

2. What allows Enrique to sleep behind the black iron gates in Chapter 3?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what happens to Enrique?

4. How do children traveling to the United States plan to find their mothers?

5. Where does Enrique live when his initially mother leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the majority of the migrants who brave riding on the trains? Why?

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

3. How is Enrique treated by the locals after his injuries are treated in Chapter 2?

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

5. What does Enrique do upon arriving at Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico?

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

7. How was Enrique captured in each of his previous attempts to travel north, according to the author in Chapter 2?

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

9. How is the theme of family disintegration illustrated through Maria Isabel in Chapter 2?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the shifts in immigration regarding how many illegal immigrants are in the country today versus in the past. How many of the illegal immigrants in the U.S. are children? Why have these numbers fluctuated?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of poverty in Enrique's Journey. What role does poverty play in the actions, objectives, and obstacles of the main figures of the narrative? How is poverty in the U.S. illustrated differently than poverty in Mexico and Central America?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the various dangers that child migrants face. How do the migrants typically travel? What alternatives to travel are there? How many child migrants die as they make their journeys?

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