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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What axiom about suffering does Cantu note on page 105?
(a) Mexico is bound to suffer with a giant over its northern border.
(b) Mexico is bound to suffer from the drug trade.
(c) Mexico is bound to suffer through hundred-year cycles of uprising.
(d) Mexico is bound to suffer an exodus of its own people.

2. Who does Cantu call in Border Patrol to try to see if he can help Jose?
(a) Morales.
(b) Smith.
(c) Beto.
(d) Hayward.

3. What does Cantu do for the undocumented migrant he processes through the system on page 154?
(a) He bandages her blistered feet for her.
(b) He gives her some clothes from his mother.
(c) He gives her cold water.
(d) He cooks a meal for her.

4. How many children does Jose have?
(a) 1.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. Who does Cantu stay behind in New Mexico to visit on page 125?
(a) His sister.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His uncle.

6. What happens to Jose's middle son that Jose tells Cantu he is worried about on page 168?
(a) He was struggling in keeping up with his math homework.
(b) He was hit by a car but was recovering.
(c) He was diagnosed with cancer.
(d) He was being bullied at school.

7. Where does Cantu go hiking on page 148?
(a) The Guadalupe Mountains.
(b) The Smoky Mountains.
(c) The Rocky Mountains.
(d) The Franklin Mountains.

8. What is the term for the genetic deficiency that predisposes certain people to acts of hostility?
(a) MOMA.
(b) MAOA.
(c) LOAM.
(d) AOMA.

9. Who is Jose's private immigration attorney?
(a) Faith Ford.
(b) Elizabeth Green.
(c) Cora Worthington.
(d) Jane Smiley.

10. On page 133, what cosmic event does Cantu imagine his relatives having witnessed?
(a) The impact of a huge meteor.
(b) A lunar eclipse.
(c) A solar eclipse.
(d) The passage of Halley's Comet.

11. Which war reporter does Cantu mention on page 150 as having examined the idea of "moral injury?
(a) David Wood.
(b) Steve Coll.
(c) Ernie Pyle.
(d) David Halberstam.

12. What does Carl Jung write towards the end of his life that Cantu cites on page 163?
(a) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by.
(b) It is always useful to have someone on a lower run that oneself.
(c) We are again living in an age filled with apocalyptic images of universal destruction.
(d) Man has always had the capacity for war.

13. Where does Hayward ask Cantu if he would like to move to from the Tucson office for his next post with Border Patrol?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Boston.
(d) El Paso.

14. Which poet re-imagined the Greek tragedy Antigone set in modern Mexico?
(a) Sandra Cisneros.
(b) Gabriella Marquez.
(c) Molly Morocco.
(d) Sara Uribe.

15. When did large-scale fighting start in the Mexican Revolution?
(a) February 1909.
(b) August 1920.
(c) September 1914.
(d) May 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was elected president of Mexico in 2006?

2. What does the U.S. Marshal give to Diego, Jose's youngest son, outside the courtroom?

3. Which of the following is one of the most common types of metaphors used by journalists writing about migrant deaths?

4. On page 117, what does Cantu dream about that is disturbing?

5. Why does Cantu's relative say his house is littered with boxes on page 125?

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