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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had just happened in Cantu's family right before he and his mother traveled to Mexico for the first time?
(a) Cantu's brother had just been born.
(b) Cantu's grandfather had just died.
(c) Cantu's mother and father had just separated.
(d) Cantu's sister had just had a bone marrow transplant.

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

3. What does Cantu do for Beto when Beto goes away for several days on page 148?
(a) Water Beto's plants.
(b) Do Beto's paperwork.
(c) Take care of Beto's dog.
(d) Look after Beto's elderly mother.

4. Why does one of Jose's sons have trouble recognizing him in the courtroom?
(a) Jose has gained a lot of weight.
(b) Jose has bruises under each eye.
(c) Jose has lost a lot of weight.
(d) Jose's hair is grey, and he has always shaved his head previously, so his sons do not recognize him.

5. What does one woman being sentenced in immigration court tell the judge that prompts him to say someone will see her at the detention facility?
(a) She has lost her diabetes medication.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She has a heart condition.
(d) She has cancer.

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

7. What does Jose have on his record that will complicate his request to be allowed to stay in the U.S.?
(a) A tax lien.
(b) A felony.
(c) A prior deportation from 1996.
(d) A misdemeanor.

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

9. Why does Cantu's relative say his house is littered with boxes on page 125?
(a) The relative does not have enough room to unpack all the things.
(b) The relative is storing boxes for a friend.
(c) The relative is leaving the country soon and does not want to go through the trouble of unpacking.
(d) The relative is renting temporarily until the relative can build a house soon.

10. Which of the following is one of the most common types of metaphors used by journalists writing about migrant deaths?
(a) Economic metaphors.
(b) Artistic metaphors.
(c) Literary metaphors.
(d) Sports metaphors.

11. On page 155, what does the sicario tell his interviewers about his dreams?
(a) He stopped dreaming after doing his job for several years.
(b) They were horrible and very realistic.
(c) They were very short.
(d) They were calming and peaceful.

12. Who accompanies Jose's wife and children to the courtroom along with Cantu?
(a) The sicario.
(b) Jose's friend who is a policeman.
(c) Jose's father.
(d) Their pastor.

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

14. What does Jose's private immigration attorney tell Cantu and Diane about Jose's case?
(a) It will be hard but not impossible.
(b) The case will require family members to come to the U.S. from Mexico to testify in Jose's favor.
(c) It will be easy to convince the judge Jose should stay.
(d) It will be a very expensive process.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jose go back to Mexico for several weeks on page 176?

2. How much does Jose's private immigration attorney charge for her services?

3. Who is Jose's court-appointed attorney?

4. Who does Cantu stay behind in New Mexico to visit on page 125?

5. Why does Jose have problems getting back into the U.S. from Mexico?

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