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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. How long did Sonia Nazario spend traveling in Honduras, Mexico, and the United States for the book?

3. Who tells Nazario of migrants to hurt themselves by running into electrified fences and other ways before coming to his house near the tracks?

4. How many migrants who arrive at the Albergue Belén shelter in Tapachula, on average, are robbed, beaten, or extorted by police?

5. What does María Isabel pray?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What dangers do female migrants face and how do they address those dangers?

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

5. Where is Enrique's family from? How is this setting described?

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

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

8. Who is Olga Sanchez Martinez and what does she do?

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

10. How is Enrique treated by Carlos Carrasco when he arrives in his town in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How have immigration policies in the U.S. and Mexico changed in the past 30 years? Have they become stricter or more lax? What impacts do these policy changes have on children like Enrique?

Essay Topic 2

How have perceptions of illegal immigrants changed in your lifetime? What public or political figures have made immigration a central focus? How have the personal views of your family and friends changed?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relationship between Enrique and Maria Isabel in the book. How old are they when their relationship begins? What struggles and obstacles do they face as a couple? Do they overcome these obstacles?

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