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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 has Jasmin begun calling Belky's husband in Chapter 8?

2. What caused the church members in Chapter 4 to begin helping migrants?

3. In schools, how many children are an immigrant or the child of one, according to the author in the Afterword?

4. In Chapter 4, why do migrants hope to cross this area during the day along this part of the journey?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conflicts arise between Maria Isabel and Enrique's family in Chapter 7?

3. Where does Enrique arrive after crossing the border into the U.S.? Where is he taken next and by whom?

4. What leads Maria Isabel to move back to her mother's home? How does this move affect her?

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

6. What hypocrisy between Mexican and U.S. immigration policies is pointed out in Chapter 4?

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

8. How is the apartment complex where Enrique's family lives described in the Epilogue?

9. How does Jasmin cross into the United States?

10. How does Enrique ultimately avoid deportation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the most challenging and dangerous checkpoints that Enrique passes during his journey. Where are they located and how are they described? How does Enrique get past these checkpoints?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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