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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) It is stressful for other people he knows, but not for him.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Sometimes.

2. Where did Cantu's mother work for almost her entire career?
(a) The U.S. National Park Service.
(b) The Wild Rangers Service.
(c) The U.S. State Department.
(d) The U.S. Air Force.

3. What do the young boys tell Cantu that the man in their party who died did that might explain his death?
(a) He did not drink any water during the entire journey.
(b) He had left his heart pills at home.
(c) He did not take his insulin during the entire journey.
(d) He took a pill the coyote gave him - likely an amphetamine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Border Patrol agents destroy migrants' belongings they find in the desert?

2. What is Cantu's colleague Cole's nickname?

3. On page 99, why is Cantu's mother so upset on the phone?

4. Why does Adam flag down Cantu as Cantu drives through the reservation on page 67?

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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