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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (pages 101 - 150).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beto tell Cantu about his aspirations for a career when he was a child?
(a) He had wanted to be a teacher.
(b) In El Paso, the only good work had been in manufacturing.
(c) In El Paso, the only people doing well were working for the cartels or working to take them down.
(d) He had wanted to be an engineer.

2. 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) Morales.
(b) Hart.
(c) Beto.
(d) Cantu.

3. 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) She he would benefit from her family's political connections.
(d) So he would always carry something from her family and not forget his Mexican heritage.

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 do not know their loved ones have died.
(c) Families fear retribution if they claim their loved ones' bodies.
(d) Families have already moved out of the country, so they are not there to claim their loved ones' bodies.

5. What is Cantu's grandfather's name?
(a) Beto Guadalupe Cantu.
(b) Manuel Cantu.
(c) Hector Luis Cantu.
(d) Roberto Richard Cantu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poet re-imagined the Greek tragedy Antigone set in modern Mexico?

2. Where does Cantu go hiking on page 148?

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

4. Why does Cantu tell his mother he wants to work in Border Patrol on page 23?

5. Why does Cantu excuse himself from Morales's hospital room and not return?

(see the answer key)

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