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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 does Cantu deliberately shoot at the firing range just to see if he is capable of taking a life?
(a) A small yellow bird.
(b) A chipmunk.
(c) A swan.
(d) A small dog.

2. What does Cantu's first supervisor tell him he should try to do with the customs agents?
(a) Learn how to access their computer systems so they can share useful information.
(b) Make friends with them.
(c) Learn their job so that he could move into one of those positions as a promotion.
(d) Bribe them.

3. What do the young boys tell Cantu that the man in their party who died did that might explain his death?
(a) He did not take his insulin during the entire journey.
(b) He had left his heart pills at home.
(c) He took a pill the coyote gave him - likely an amphetamine.
(d) He did not drink any water during the entire journey.

4. Why does Cantu's mother tell him she insisted on keeping her maiden name after she married his father?
(a) So he could pass the name on to his own children.
(b) So he could always easily apply for a Mexican passport if he wanted to.
(c) So he would always carry something from her family and not forget his Mexican heritage.
(d) She he would benefit from her family's political connections.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which other colleagues of Cantu's also visited Morales in the hospital while Cantu was there?

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

3. What animal features in one of Cantu's unsettling dreams on page 14?

4. What often happens, according to Cantu, when the U.S. enacts a border crackdown?

5. Which of the following exercise is included in Cantu's Border Patrol training?

(see the answer key)

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