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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 50).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Border Patrol agents destroy migrants' belongings they find in the desert?
(a) Because they resent the migrants so much.
(b) To clean up the desert, per their orders.
(c) To discourage the migrants from continuing their journey.
(d) To make sure they continue to think of migrants as less than human.

2. What tradition do Cantu and his mother perform every Christmas Eve?
(a) They volunteer at a local soup kitchen.
(b) They each open one present from the other.
(c) They pass out candy to the neighborhood children.
(d) They trim the tree.

3. What happens to Cantu only two days after arriving to his post as a Border Patrol agent?
(a) He and his colleagues find a dad body in the dessert.
(b) He and his colleagues are reprimanded for not adhering to the agency's rules.
(c) He and his colleagues catch their first load of drugs.
(d) He and his colleagues get a flat tire in the desert.

4. What does Cole do with the hand sanitizer he asks the Border Patrol agents for on page 32?
(a) Taunts a migrant with it.
(b) Lights a cactus on fire.
(c) Empties it into the sand.
(d) Throws it in someone's eyes.

5. Where did the man and his wife that Cantu picks up on the reservation on page 39 come to the U.S. from?
(a) The Yucatan.
(b) Morelos.
(c) Jurez.
(d) Columbia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cantu's mother tell him he can work anywhere he would like?

2. What does the elderly man from Michoacan ask Cantu if he can do while he wants to be deported on page 31?

3. Which of the following is one reason Cantu's mother tells him she embarked on the career she chose?

4. What is Cantu's colleague Cole's nickname?

5. What are Border Patrol agents instructed to do with water, food, and other belongings they find that migrants have left in the desert?

(see the answer key)

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