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

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

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

4. What does Cantu tell the young boys who lost one of their party in the desert NOT to do if they decide to try to cross the border again?
(a) Take water with them.
(b) Cross in the summer.
(c) Eat meat on the journey.
(d) Try to navigate by the stars.

5. Why does Adam flag down Cantu as Cantu drives through the reservation on page 67?
(a) Adam has noticed many strange vehicles passing through his town, and some men had come to his house and intimidated his wife.
(b) Adam found a gun in the desert and does not know what to do with it.
(c) Adam found drugs in the desert and does not know what to do with them.
(d) Adam's wife was in labor and they needed an ambulance fast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman from Guadalajara tell Cantu and Mortenson she aspires to on page 37?

2. Why does Cantu's mother tell him he can work anywhere he would like?

3. What do the people who occasionally break into Adam's house always do, according to what he tells Cantu?

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

5. How long does Cantu spend in training in his Border Patrol unit on page 35?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cantu's mother tell him about her feelings looking back on her career as a National Parks worker?

2. What does Cantu discover that some coyotes, or smugglers who are paid to help immigrants cross the border illegally, give to immigrants to "help" on their journey?

3. What do some of the other Border Patrol agents suggest might help combat the smell of dead bodies when going out to recover them in the desert?

4. How does Cantu's own experiences in Ciudad Juarez compare to what he has heard about the city?

5. 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?

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

7. Why does one of the older man from Michoacan ask Cantu if there is any work for him to do at the Border Patrol station as he awaits deportation processing?

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

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

10. How was the modern-day boundary between the U.S. and Mexico first defined?

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