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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 does Cantu excuse himself from Morales's hospital room and not return?
(a) He is squeamish around medical equipment.
(b) He feels he should be at the office doing work.
(c) Being in the hospital brings back bad memories of his father's death.
(d) He is crying and does not want Morales's friends and family to see him upset.

2. What tradition do Cantu and his mother perform every Christmas Eve?
(a) They trim the tree.
(b) They each open one present from the other.
(c) They pass out candy to the neighborhood children.
(d) They volunteer at a local soup kitchen.

3. What Oaxacan food did the two men Morales and Cantu picked up on page 50 offer to Cantu?
(a) Chorizo.
(b) Beer.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Fried grasshoppers.

4. On page 99, why is Cantu's mother so upset on the phone?
(a) She wanted to ask how his doctor's appointment had turned out.
(b) Her friend had told her she had seen Cantu in the street earlier and he looked very ill.
(c) She had a dream that he had been hurt and she was checking on him.
(d) She had heard a Border Patrol agent was killed and she worried it might be him.

5. When was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo enacted?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1776.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Cantu only two days after arriving to his post as a Border Patrol agent?

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

3. Why is Morales in the hospital on page 65?

4. Why does Adam flag down Cantu as Cantu drives through the reservation on page 67?

5. Why do Border Patrol agents destroy migrants' belongings they find in the desert?

(see the answer key)

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