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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cantu tell the dentist when the dentist asks if his work in Border Patrol is stressful?
(a) No.
(b) It is stressful for other people he knows, but not for him.
(c) Yes.
(d) Sometimes.

2. What visions of migrants does Cantu describe sometimes seeing in his nightmares on page 34?
(a) Migrant children looking for their parents in the desert.
(b) Dead migrants who have not made it out of the desert alive.
(c) Migrants who have been shot and thrown in mass graves.
(d) Migrants who have been bitten by poisonous snakes.

3. What does the elderly man from Michoacan ask Cantu if he can do while he wants to be deported on page 31?
(a) Eat a dinner he brought in his backpack.
(b) Any kind of work in the border patrol station.
(c) Play cards with Cantu.
(d) Call his wife to tell her he is safe.

4. What delicacy did Morales want to eat that the two men he and Cantu picked up on page 50 had?
(a) Jerky.
(b) Papusas.
(c) Flan.
(d) Chilaquiles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 83, what does the dentist ask Cantu if he was aware of as a problem with his teeth?

2. Which of the following exercise is included in Cantu's Border Patrol training?

3. Why do some people on the reservation sleep in the middle of the road?

4. Where did the man and his wife that Cantu picks up on the reservation on page 39 come to the U.S. from?

5. What does Cantu want to tell Adam on the phone but holds himself back from suggesting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What fears do Adam and his wife, living in a border town, have about the men who come to the house demanding things?

2. Why do some of the agents at the Border Patrol station call Cole "Black Death"?

3. Why does Cantu want to see his classmate Santiago graduate the most out of all his classmates in Border Patrol Training?

4. How did the two young sisters who were brought in to the Border Patrol station alone react to their processing and questioning?

5. Why do Cantu and other Border Patrol agents destroy any of the belongings and provisions they find in the desert?

6. What does the dentist who works on Cantu's mouth surmise about his problem grinding his teeth?

7. How does Mortenson treat Cantu when they first meet on the job?

8. What realization did Italian priest Father Eusebio Kino have when he climbed to the top of a volcanic peak south of the international boundary line in 1706?

9. Who did Cantu's mother name him after and what was his namesake known for?

10. What contradictory symbols and feelings does the wolf in Cantu's dream at the beginning of the book convey?

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