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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 201 - 247).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jose's private immigration lawyer tell Cantu, Diane, and Jose's wife about what happens if Jose's request to stay in the U.S. is denied?
(a) He will be released and told to go back to Mexico within two years.
(b) He will be deported to Mexico quickly.
(c) He will be held in prison for six months and then released to see his family in the U.S.
(d) He will be deported to Mexico within about one year.

2. Why does Jose go back to Mexico for several weeks on page 176?
(a) He wants to interview for a job there.
(b) He needs to pick up some important documents he left there.
(c) His mother is dying and he wants to see her and be with her.
(d) He has a home there he is selling.

3. What does Cantu wish he has the courage to do for Jose?
(a) Take him safely across the border himself.
(b) Find a way to change U.S. immigration policy.
(c) Pay for his safe passage with a coyote.
(d) Go back to court and argue Jose's case.

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

5. 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) Migrants who have been bitten by poisonous snakes.
(c) Dead migrants who have not made it out of the desert alive.
(d) Migrant children looking for their parents in the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cantu stops a suspicious car on page 70, what false name does one of the men give to Cantu?

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

3. What does Jose tell Cantu about bringing his sons to live in Mexico with him?

4. What does the elderly man from Michoacan ask Cantu if he can do while he wants to be deported on page 31?

5. What often happens, according to Cantu, when the U.S. enacts a border crackdown?

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