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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. Which asset does Chava bring to the group?

2. What does Atomiko say the friends need on their journey?

3. Which is Araceli's makeshift household invention?

4. What does the waitress tell Nayeli to obtain?

5. Who does Nayeli think she needs in order to make everything work?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what does Nayeli tell the agents about Atomiko?

2. What is the front for the hole?

3. What does it mean that Matt went through a Bible-thumping phase?

4. What does Atomiko use his prized staff for?

5. What do the friends see on most of the corners in Tijuana?

6. How is the journey with the coyote?

7. In Chapter 23, who volunteers Chava to be part of the mission?

8. Why do Porfirio and Araceli approach the four friends?

9. What is in view when the four friends climb the steep bank by the wall?

10. Why do the agents violently drag Tacho away?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Irma believe life and love are war? How does she try to prepare Nayeli, both physically and emotionally, to be a winner at life?

Essay Topic 2

The girls are disgusted by the filth of the area Porfirio and Araceli live in. What makes them calm down and feel happier? Why is the couple generous when they have so little?

Essay Topic 3

How does the author use Candelaria's interactions with the migra agents to show her history? Does her plight seem common? Why?

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