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

2. On page 117, what does Cantu dream about that is disturbing?
(a) His teeth rotting out.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) A cave littered with body parts.
(d) Finding bodies in the desert.

3. What does Cole do with the hand sanitizer he asks the Border Patrol agents for on page 32?
(a) Taunts a migrant with it.
(b) Empties it into the sand.
(c) Throws it in someone's eyes.
(d) Lights a cactus on fire.

4. On page 104, which city does Frances's daughter tell Cantu they can see?
(a) Juarez.
(b) Tijuana.
(c) Cancun.
(d) El Paso.

5. 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 drink any water during the entire journey.
(b) He had left his heart pills at home.
(c) He did not take his insulin during the entire journey.
(d) He took a pill the coyote gave him - likely an amphetamine.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 111, what kind of bird does Cantu see on one of his monitor cameras?

2. What is the word for mass graves where the drug cartels left the bodies of those they murdered?

3. What does the woman from Guadalajara tell Cantu and Mortenson she aspires to on page 37?

4. What does one of the Border Patrol agents bring to the young immigrant sisters on page 51, hoping it will make them feel better?

5. On page 133, what cosmic event does Cantu imagine his relatives having witnessed?

(see the answer key)

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