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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10. The Long Walk - 14. Helicopters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the walkers spend more time in the desert sun than other people making the trip?
(a) Mendez had a deep passion for long, desert walks.
(b) They accidentally started their trip during daylight savings time.
(c) Solar winds delayed the sunset by a few hours.
(d) They had arrived at the big rock early, when there was more daylight left before sunset.

2. Who was in the last group of Coyotes that left the walkers behind?
(a) Lauro and Santos.
(b) Mendez and Rey Sr.
(c) Mendez and Lauro.
(d) Lauro and Nahum Landa.

3. What structure did the walkers have to cross to get into America?
(a) A collapsed barbed-wire fence.
(b) A twenty-foot wall.
(c) A highly-guarded tunnel.
(d) A giant moat.

4. Why were there few beans to eat in Veracruz in the early 2000s?
(a) Consumers in the United States drove bean prices to unreasonable levels.
(b) A great fire had wiped out most of the bean shipments.
(c) The pope had decreed that beans were improper according to Leviticus.
(d) The bean crops native to Mexico had gone extinct.

5. Why does Urrea suggest it was unlikely that Border Patrol agents were responsible for the lights at Bluebird Pass?
(a) Border Patrol agents do not go out at night.
(b) No Border Patrol station was posted for miles.
(c) No Border Patrol agent would leave the scene after lighting up 30 border crossers.
(d) Border Patrol agent vehicles are not equipped with lights that bright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical abnormality influenced Mendez's course through the desert?

2. Why does Urrea voice skepticism that Mendez truly believed the lights came from Border Patrol agents?

3. How much water did Mendez share with the walkers?

4. Why was the sign reading, "USA Prohibido!" (57) confusing to Spanish-speakers?

5. Why did men start tossing away their belongings during their walk?

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