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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (pages 51 - 100).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Cantu find two tired immigrants camped out on the reservation on page 38?
(a) Inside a church.
(b) In an abandoned school house.
(c) In a police station.
(d) In a soup kitchen.

2. What does Adam's wife tell Cantu is different about the men who recently came to the door?
(a) They wore camouflage pants and did not carry backpacks.
(b) They carried guns.
(c) They spoke perfect English.
(d) They seemed very afraid.

3. What do the young boys tell Cantu that the man in their party who died did that might explain his death?
(a) He took a pill the coyote gave him - likely an amphetamine.
(b) He did not drink any water during the entire journey.
(c) He did not take his insulin during the entire journey.
(d) He had left his heart pills at home.

4. Where are migrants who survive the crossing of the desert often shepherded by smugglers inside the U.S.?
(a) To prisons.
(b) To vampire towns.
(c) To "drop houses."
(d) To family members waiting to welcome them.

5. Which of the following is one reason Cantu's mother tells him she embarked on the career she chose?
(a) She wanted to make sure consumers were protected.
(b) She wanted to make sure everyone had equal access to higher education.
(c) She wanted to guard the landscape against ruin.
(d) She wanted to help foster stronger ties with the U.S.'s allies abroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 77, why is Cantu so frustrated that he loses the trail of the 20 or so immigrants he is tracking in the desert?

2. Who is Cantu's first supervisor on his first rotating shifts with Border Patrol?

3. What delicacy did Morales want to eat that the two men he and Cantu picked up on page 50 had?

4. What do the Border Patrol agents who have processed dead bodies tell Cantu is the worst thing about the work?

5. Why do the tribal police often decline to come to pick up abandoned vehicles when Border Patrol calls them?

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