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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 does Cantu's mother tell him she insisted on keeping her maiden name after she married his father?
(a) So he could always easily apply for a Mexican passport if he wanted to.
(b) She he would benefit from her family's political connections.
(c) So he would always carry something from her family and not forget his Mexican heritage.
(d) So he could pass the name on to his own children.

2. Where does Cantu find two tired immigrants camped out on the reservation on page 38?
(a) In a police station.
(b) Inside a church.
(c) In an abandoned school house.
(d) In a soup kitchen.

3. What often happens, according to Cantu, when the U.S. enacts a border crackdown?
(a) Smugglers increase their fees for helping people cross the border.
(b) Undocumented immigrants stop coming into the country.
(c) Undocumented immigrants chose other countries to immigrate to.
(d) Undocumented immigration surges.

4. According to Cantu, why do so many bodies in the morgue in Juarez remain unclaimed?
(a) Families fear retribution if they claim their loved ones' bodies.
(b) Families do not know their loved ones have died.
(c) Families have already moved out of the country, so they are not there to claim their loved ones' bodies.
(d) Families are too poor to pay the fees to collect the bodies.

5. What tradition do Cantu and his mother perform every Christmas Eve?
(a) They volunteer at a local soup kitchen.
(b) They trim the tree.
(c) They pass out candy to the neighborhood children.
(d) They each open one present from the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cantu tell his mother he wants to work in Border Patrol on page 23?

2. Why do the tribal police often decline to come to pick up abandoned vehicles when Border Patrol calls them?

3. What does Cantu deliberately shoot at the firing range just to see if he is capable of taking a life?

4. Who is Cantu's first supervisor on his first rotating shifts with Border Patrol?

5. Where does Cantu's mother live?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Cantu feel when he goes to visit Morales in the hospital following his motorcycle accident?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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