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

2. What does Cantu want to tell Adam on the phone but holds himself back from suggesting?
(a) He should make sure he always carries a gun.
(b) He should install new locks and deadbolts on all his doors.
(c) He should leave the church he has been a member of his entire life.
(d) He should take his family and move somewhere else, far from the border.

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

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. 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 help foster stronger ties with the U.S.'s allies abroad.
(c) She wanted to make sure everyone had equal access to higher education.
(d) She wanted to make sure consumers were protected.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cantu's supervisor say he hopes to be transferred to eventually?

2. What does Cantu deliberately shoot at the firing range just to see if he is capable of taking a life?

3. How old were the young immigrant sisters Mortenson asks Cantu to translate for on page 51?

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

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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