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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. Why does Cantu tell his mother he wants to work in Border Patrol on page 23?
(a) He wants his wife and children to be proud of him.
(b) He has read about the border in books and now he wants to see what it is like for himself.
(c) Border Patrol will pay for him to earn a master's degree while he works there.
(d) The job pays very well.

2. Which organization began an investigation into the large-scale killings of women in Juarez in 2004?
(a) Doctors Without Borders.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) Heifer.
(d) Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.

3. What animal features in one of Cantu's unsettling dreams on page 14?
(a) A lion.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A worm.
(d) A whale.

4. What do Cantu and his mother traditionally drink together on Christmas Eve?
(a) Tequila.
(b) Mezcal.
(c) Eggnog.
(d) Whisky.

5. What is the word for mass graves where the drug cartels left the bodies of those they murdered?
(a) Mortefonas.
(b) Quintofosas.
(c) Narcofosas.
(d) Eladantas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cantu call in Border Patrol to try to see if he can help Jose?

2. Why do some people on the reservation sleep in the middle of the road?

3. How many children does Jose have?

4. What had just happened in Cantu's family right before he and his mother traveled to Mexico for the first time?

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?

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