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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (pages 51 - 100).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people who occasionally break into Adam's house always do, according to what he tells Cantu?
(a) Change the locks.
(b) Steal everything, including pots and pans.
(c) Leave the water running.
(d) Break windows.

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

3. What does Cantu learn decapitation can be a symbol for?
(a) Economic inequality.
(b) Power and dominance.
(c) Submission.
(d) Racial violence.

4. How old were the young immigrant sisters Mortenson asks Cantu to translate for on page 51?
(a) 15 and 16.
(b) 9 and 10.
(c) 20 and 21.
(d) 6 and 7.

5. What do the Border Patrol agents who have processed dead bodies tell Cantu is the worst thing about the work?
(a) The smell.
(b) The sight.
(c) The sound.
(d) The heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal featured in a story Cantu recalls his mother reading to him as a child on page 81?

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

3. What do the young boys tell Cantu that the man in their party who died did that might explain his death?

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

5. Why does Cantu's mother tell him she insisted on keeping her maiden name after she married his father?

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