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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. Why is Morales in the hospital on page 65?
(a) He was suffering from severe anxiety.
(b) He had had a heart attack.
(c) He was in a motorcycle accident.
(d) He was in a swimming accident.

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

3. Which classmate of Cantu's did he most want to see graduate from Border Patrol training with him?
(a) Morales.
(b) Smith.
(c) Santiago.
(d) Hart.

4. Who is Cantu's first supervisor on his first rotating shifts with Border Patrol?
(a) Hart.
(b) Morales.
(c) Smith.
(d) Mortenson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of case is more paperwork that involves drugs found at the border?

3. On page 97, what does Cantu tell Hayward is bothering him about the job?

4. What does the elderly man from Michoacan ask Cantu if he can do while he wants to be deported on page 31?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Adam say when Cantu asks him why his town is called the vampire town?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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