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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. When Cantu stops a suspicious car on page 70, what false name does one of the men give to Cantu?
(a) Michael Jackson.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Jimi Hendrix.
(d) Mick Jagger.

2. What visions of migrants does Cantu describe sometimes seeing in his nightmares on page 34?
(a) Migrants who have been shot and thrown in mass graves.
(b) Migrant children looking for their parents in the desert.
(c) Dead migrants who have not made it out of the desert alive.
(d) Migrants who have been bitten by poisonous snakes.

3. What does the woman from Guadalajara tell Cantu and Mortenson she aspires to on page 37?
(a) To be a singer.
(b) To find a better home for her children.
(c) To be a citizen.
(d) To save her grandmother.

4. According to Cantu, why do so many bodies in the morgue in Juarez remain unclaimed?
(a) Families are too poor to pay the fees to collect the bodies.
(b) Families have already moved out of the country, so they are not there to claim their loved ones' bodies.
(c) Families do not know their loved ones have died.
(d) Families fear retribution if they claim their loved ones' bodies.

5. Who stayed with the body in the desert while the other agents brought the surviving migrants back to the Border Patrol station to be processed on page 57?
(a) Hart.
(b) Cantu.
(c) Beto.
(d) Morales.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On page 99, why is Cantu's mother so upset on the phone?

3. What are Border Patrol agents instructed to do with water, food, and other belongings they find that migrants have left in the desert?

4. Who was Hart's roommate who dropped out of Border Patrol training?

5. On page 97, what does Cantu tell Hayward is bothering him about the job?

(see the answer key)

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