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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 97, what does Cantu tell Hayward is bothering him about the job?
(a) He feels that his language skills are not up to par.
(b) He feels like he is not getting paid enough.
(c) He feels bad for all the people crossing that he can not help.
(d) He feels like all the real work is really out in the field.

2. What are Border Patrol agents instructed to do with water, food, and other belongings they find that migrants have left in the desert?
(a) Tag everything for evidence.
(b) Donate everything to charity.
(c) Destroy everything.
(d) Take anything they want or need for themselves.

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

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

5. What does Cantu's mother tell him is her impression of the Border Patrol agency?
(a) It is a system with little regard for people.
(b) He can not trust the people who work there.
(c) It is the best place he can work at the moment.
(d) It will probably be shut down soon.

6. Where are migrants who survive the crossing of the desert often shepherded by smugglers inside the U.S.?
(a) To vampire towns.
(b) To "drop houses."
(c) To prisons.
(d) To family members waiting to welcome them.

7. What is Cantu's colleague Cole's nickname?
(a) Reaper.
(b) Black Death.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Renegade.

8. Why do the tribal police often decline to come to pick up abandoned vehicles when Border Patrol calls them?
(a) They think abandoned vehicles harbor harmful spirits.
(b) They are afraid people will still be in the vehicle.
(c) They do not want the paperwork either.
(d) They are too busy with more important work.

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's wife was in labor and they needed an ambulance fast.
(c) Adam found drugs in the desert and does not know what to do with them.
(d) Adam has noticed many strange vehicles passing through his town, and some men had come to his house and intimidated his wife.

10. Who is Cantu's first supervisor on his first rotating shifts with Border Patrol?
(a) Smith.
(b) Morales.
(c) Hart.
(d) Mortenson.

11. What is Adam's reaction when Cantu asks him why his village is called a "vampire" village?
(a) He says it is because the town is overrun with vampire bats.
(b) He says it is because everyone stays up all night, and sleeps all day.
(c) He says it is because there were many stories about vampires that originated in the village.
(d) He laughs and says he does not know why it is called that.

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

13. Why does Cantu arrest one of the men in the car he stops on page 70?
(a) He tries to run away.
(b) There is an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
(c) He is smoking marijuana.
(d) He has a gun he is not authorized to have.

14. What kind of case is more paperwork that involves drugs found at the border?
(a) A smuggling case involving cocaine.
(b) A smuggling case with more than 10 ounces of drugs.
(c) A smuggling case involving heroin.
(d) A smuggling case with live suspects.

15. Which other colleagues of Cantu's also visited Morales in the hospital while Cantu was there?
(a) Smith and Wesson.
(b) Cole and Hart.
(c) Beto and Manuel.
(d) Dominguez and Monterey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Cantu only two days after arriving to his post as a Border Patrol agent?

2. On page 70, what does Cantu see on his way home from working the swing shift that unsettles him?

3. What does Cantu deliberately shoot at the firing range just to see if he is capable of taking a life?

4. What does Cantu's first supervisor tell him he should try to do with the customs agents?

5. What animal features in one of Cantu's unsettling dreams on page 14?

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