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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 sport do Cantu and Diego talk about on their car journey to see Jose at the detention center?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Tennis.
(d) American football.

2. What Oaxacan food did the two men Morales and Cantu picked up on page 50 offer to Cantu?
(a) Chorizo.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Fried grasshoppers.
(d) Beer.

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

4. What axiom about suffering does Cantu note on page 105?
(a) Mexico is bound to suffer from the drug trade.
(b) Mexico is bound to suffer with a giant over its northern border.
(c) Mexico is bound to suffer through hundred-year cycles of uprising.
(d) Mexico is bound to suffer an exodus of its own people.

5. What did the coyotes tell Lupe they needed in order to bring Jose the rest of the way across the border?
(a) Food.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $3,000.
(d) Drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cantu's mother tell him about what she has learned about violence?

2. What tradition do Cantu and his mother perform every Christmas Eve?

3. Who does Cantu stay behind in New Mexico to visit on page 125?

4. How much does Jose's private immigration attorney charge for her services?

5. Why does one of Jose's sons have trouble recognizing him in the courtroom?

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