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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. How does Maria Isabel reach the United States?

2. What river is Enrique crossing in order to enter America in Chapter 6?

3. What is one of the most prominent struggles that Enrique faces after coming to the U.S.?

4. Where was Enrique's mother the last time they spoke, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

5. The U Visa allows illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. if they do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the strife between Enrique and Lourdes after his arrival in the U.S.?

2. What happens when Enrique is arrested in Jacksonville, Florida? Where is he taken?

3. How does Jasmin cross into the United States?

4. How is Maria Isabel transported into the U.S.?

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

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

7. How is Enrique's reunion with his mother described in Chapter 6?

8. What problems arise with Enrique and Maria Isabel in the Epilogue?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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