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

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

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

4. Who was Hart's roommate who dropped out of Border Patrol training?
(a) Wesson.
(b) Dominguez.
(c) Morales.
(d) Smith.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What Oaxacan food did the two men Morales and Cantu picked up on page 50 offer to Cantu?

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

5. Where did the man and his wife that Cantu picks up on the reservation on page 39 come to the U.S. from?

(see the answer key)

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