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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 Adam's wife tell Cantu is different about the men who recently came to the door?
(a) They seemed very afraid.
(b) They wore camouflage pants and did not carry backpacks.
(c) They carried guns.
(d) They spoke perfect English.

2. Why does Cantu arrest one of the men in the car he stops on page 70?
(a) He has a gun he is not authorized to have.
(b) He is smoking marijuana.
(c) There is an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
(d) He tries to run away.

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

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

5. When Cantu stops a suspicious car on page 70, what false name does one of the men give to Cantu?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Mick Jagger.
(c) Jimi Hendrix.
(d) Michael Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cantu's mother live?

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

3. Why does Cantu's mother tell him she insisted on keeping her maiden name after she married his father?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one main reason why Cantu's mother does not want him to become a Border Patrol agent?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Cantu so nervous when he comes home from work late one night to see a man lurking in the dark on his street?

9. What is Cantu's impression of the people and atmosphere in Cuidad Juarez when the book opens?

10. What do Cantu and his mother always do as a tradition on Christmas Eve together?

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