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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 201 - 247).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the elderly man from Michoacan ask Cantu if he can do while he wants to be deported on page 31?
(a) Call his wife to tell her he is safe.
(b) Eat a dinner he brought in his backpack.
(c) Any kind of work in the border patrol station.
(d) Play cards with Cantu.

2. Where is Jose originally from?
(a) Juarez.
(b) Monterrey.
(c) Oaxaca.
(d) Mexico City.

3. What does Cantu tell the young boys who lost one of their party in the desert NOT to do if they decide to try to cross the border again?
(a) Try to navigate by the stars.
(b) Cross in the summer.
(c) Take water with them.
(d) Eat meat on the journey.

4. What does Jose Jr. talk to his father about on page 212?
(a) His new job.
(b) Needing new shoes.
(c) School, his friends, and soccer.
(d) His new girlfriend.

5. What does Jose's son Jose Jr. tell Cantu about going to talk to his father on page 211?
(a) He does not want to talk to his father because he is angry at his father.
(b) He is afraid he will cry when he talks to his father.
(c) He can not wait to talk to his father.
(d) He does not know if he can handle the pressure of talking to his father because his father is in jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cantu's birth name?

2. What nickname does Jose use for Cantu on page 213?

3. What does Diane tell Cantu at the checkout at the grocery store when he runs into her on page 224?

4. What does Cole do with the hand sanitizer he asks the Border Patrol agents for on page 32?

5. What does the sicario describe as his experience in going to a prayer service at a Christian church?

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