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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 does Enrique lose in the assault?

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

3. What does Enrique have on his shins in Chapter 3?

4. Who is Santos?

5. Why do many Honduran mothers pull their children from school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Lourdes' journey into the United States described?

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

4. With whom does Enrique stay at the cemetery in Chapter 3? How is this individual described?

5. What happens when Enrique takes a ride from a passing driver in Chapter 2?

6. What plans did Sonia Nazario make for her research journey before setting out?

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

8. How old is Lourdes when she leaves her children? Why does she leave them?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss examples of irony in Enrique's Journey. What is the purpose of the author's employment of irony? What types of irony are employed? What does each example signify?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss Enrique's tenacity in his journey. How many times does Enrique attempt to get across the U.S. border? How is he stopped each time? What makes Enrique not give up?

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