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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman from Guadalajara tell Cantu and Mortenson she aspires to on page 37?
(a) To be a singer.
(b) To be a citizen.
(c) To find a better home for her children.
(d) To save her grandmother.

2. What does Cantu deliberately shoot at the firing range just to see if he is capable of taking a life?
(a) A small dog.
(b) A small yellow bird.
(c) A swan.
(d) A chipmunk.

3. Which classmate of Cantu's did he most want to see graduate from Border Patrol training with him?
(a) Smith.
(b) Morales.
(c) Hart.
(d) Santiago.

4. What does Cantu's first supervisor tell him he should try to do with the customs agents?
(a) Learn their job so that he could move into one of those positions as a promotion.
(b) Bribe them.
(c) Learn how to access their computer systems so they can share useful information.
(d) Make friends with them.

5. Where does Cantu find two tired immigrants camped out on the reservation on page 38?
(a) In a police station.
(b) In a soup kitchen.
(c) Inside a church.
(d) In an abandoned school house.

6. Who is also in the car with Adam and his wife when they flag Cantu down on the road?
(a) Adam's father.
(b) Adam's three children.
(c) Adam's young son.
(d) Adam's dog.

7. Why does Cantu's mother tell him she insisted on keeping her maiden name after she married his father?
(a) So he would always carry something from her family and not forget his Mexican heritage.
(b) So he could pass the name on to his own children.
(c) So he could always easily apply for a Mexican passport if he wanted to.
(d) She he would benefit from her family's political connections.

8. Who is Cantu's supervisor at his new job in intelligence at the Border Patrol office in Tucson?
(a) Hayward.
(b) Beto.
(c) Morales.
(d) Manuel.

9. Why does Adam flag down Cantu as Cantu drives through the reservation on page 67?
(a) Adam found a gun in the desert and does not know what to do with it.
(b) Adam found drugs in the desert and does not know what to do with them.
(c) Adam has noticed many strange vehicles passing through his town, and some men had come to his house and intimidated his wife.
(d) Adam's wife was in labor and they needed an ambulance fast.

10. Where did the man and his wife that Cantu picks up on the reservation on page 39 come to the U.S. from?
(a) Morelos.
(b) Jurez.
(c) Columbia.
(d) The Yucatan.

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

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

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

14. How old were the young immigrant sisters Mortenson asks Cantu to translate for on page 51?
(a) 20 and 21.
(b) 15 and 16.
(c) 6 and 7.
(d) 9 and 10.

15. What does Cantu learn decapitation can be a symbol for?
(a) Racial violence.
(b) Submission.
(c) Economic inequality.
(d) Power and dominance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cantu tell the young boys who lost one of their party in the desert NOT to do if they decide to try to cross the border again?

2. Where does Cantu's mother live?

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

4. Who was Hart's roommate who dropped out of Border Patrol training?

5. What kind of case is more paperwork that involves drugs found at the border?

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