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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do other agents refer to the village Adam and his wife live in?
(a) The borderline.
(b) The dead zone.
(c) The vampire village.
(d) The meerkat.

3. Who climbed to a peak south of the international boundary line in 1706 and realized California was connected to Mexico?
(a) Guadalupe Hidalgo.
(b) Oscar Romero.
(c) Christopher Columbus.
(d) Father Eusebio Kino.

4. What does Cantu's supervisor tell him he might find at first in his new job in intelligence?
(a) The shift work may be difficult to adjust to.
(b) It may seem boring compared to field work.
(c) His eyes may seem tired from looking at screens all day.
(d) His ears might ring from wearing headphones all day.

5. Why does Cantu's mother tell him he can work anywhere he would like?
(a) She knows many people who can get him a job in finance in New York.
(b) He is the smartest person she knows.
(c) He graduated with honors and has a 4-year degree.
(d) He speaks five languages and anyone would be happy to employ him.

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

7. Which of the following exercise is included in Cantu's Border Patrol training?
(a) Squash.
(b) Stationary biking.
(c) Completing a full triathlon.
(d) Soccer.

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

9. How long does Cantu spend in training in his Border Patrol unit on page 35?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 3 months.

10. Who was Hart's roommate who dropped out of Border Patrol training?
(a) Morales.
(b) Smith.
(c) Dominguez.
(d) Wesson.

11. 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.

12. When was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo enacted?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1848.

13. How does Cantu's mother become injured in Mexico during their trip there in the book's prologue?
(a) She is bitten by a stray dog.
(b) She drinks some tainted water and contracts an illness.
(c) She twists her ankle walking across a busy street.
(d) She is hit by a stray bullet.

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

15. Where did Cantu's mother work for almost her entire career?
(a) The U.S. National Park Service.
(b) The U.S. State Department.
(c) The U.S. Air Force.
(d) The Wild Rangers Service.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cantu, why do so many bodies in the morgue in Juarez remain unclaimed?

2. Why does Cantu excuse himself from Morales's hospital room and not return?

3. On page 77, why is Cantu so frustrated that he loses the trail of the 20 or so immigrants he is tracking in the desert?

4. Which other colleagues of Cantu's also visited Morales in the hospital while Cantu was there?

5. Why do Border Patrol agents destroy migrants' belongings they find in the desert?

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