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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. On average, how many migrant girls are sexually assaulted during their journey?

2. To what gang does the gangster belong that sleeps next to Enrique in Chapter 3?

3. What do the police do after they raid the cemetery?

4. According to Nazario, how many immigrants enter the United States illegally each year?

5. Who is Diana?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the extent of Enrique's injuries in Chapter 2? Who treats him?

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

7. How was Enrique captured during his first attempt to travel north?

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

9. What does Sonia Nazario learn about her housekeeper that leads her to write this book?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do child migrants go about protecting themselves from the dangers and threats that they face? How is this demonstrated through Enrique's actions in the book?

Essay Topic 2

What are common issues that arise with migrant children when they reach their mothers in the U.S.? How do these children fare in school? What behavioral problems often arise? What is at the root of these behavioral problems?

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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