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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. What does Cantu's mother tell him is her impression of the Border Patrol agency?
(a) It will probably be shut down soon.
(b) It is the best place he can work at the moment.
(c) It is a system with little regard for people.
(d) He can not trust the people who work there.

2. Why do some people on the reservation sleep in the middle of the road?
(a) They think it means they will be taken into custody and given a warm bed.
(b) They are confused and think it is a sandy beach.
(c) When they are intoxicated, they want to sleep somewhere warm, and the asphalt retains the day's heat.
(d) They want to stop the cars from passing.

3. Who climbed to a peak south of the international boundary line in 1706 and realized California was connected to Mexico?
(a) Guadalupe Hidalgo.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) Father Eusebio Kino.
(d) Oscar Romero.

4. 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) Play cards with Cantu.
(d) Any kind of work in the border patrol station.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cantu tell his mother he wants to work in Border Patrol on page 23?

2. What visions of migrants does Cantu describe sometimes seeing in his nightmares on page 34?

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

4. How does Cantu's mother become injured in Mexico during their trip there in the book's prologue?

5. Where does Cantu find two tired immigrants camped out on the reservation on page 38?

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