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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 is Jose's wife?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Maxine.
(c) Lupe.
(d) Gabriella.
2. What is Cantu's birth name?
(a) Roberto Cantu.
(b) Frances Cantu-Simmons.
(c) Jonathan Cantu.
(d) Joshua Tyler Cantu-Simmons.
3. Who was elected president of Mexico in 2006?
(a) Felipe Calderon.
(b) Oscar Romero.
(c) Vicente Fox.
(d) Beto O'Rourke.
4. What does the sicario describe as his experience in going to a prayer service at a Christian church?
(a) He felt angry.
(b) He felt resentful.
(c) He felt like he wanted to become a priest.
(d) He started to cry with emotion.
5. Who was the migrant on page 154 that Cantu takes into the Border Patrol station for processing trying to get to see in the U.S.?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which Italian filmmaker participated in the interviews with the former hit man for the drug cartels in 2008?
2. What had just happened in Cantu's family right before he and his mother traveled to Mexico for the first time?
3. What words are painted on rocks Cantu can see on the Juarez Mountains on page 130?
4. What is one of Jose's jobs?
5. What is the word for mass graves where the drug cartels left the bodies of those they murdered?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Beto tell Cantu he thinks is a harbinger of death in his family on page 120?
2. What does Beto tell Cantu about his background and his aspirations for his career with Border Patrol?
3. Cantu's mother was surprised when she finally met her long-estranged father. Why?
4. What does the U.S. Marshal from the courtroom give to one of Jose's sons that surprises Jose's defense attorney?
5. What does Cantu's supervisor Hayward at Border Patrol suggest as a change in direction for him that will still allow him to stay with the agency on page 111?
6. What does Cantu write that Carl Jung said the meaning of a savage animal in a dream was?
7. What Greek story does Cantu mention and compare to some of the tragedies he sees playing out in the desert through his job?
8. Why does Cantu tell Hayward he will likely stop working for Border Patrol on page 157?
9. What did Mexican president Felipe Calderon base his campaign on?
10. Why is Lupe, Jose's wife, not able to visit the detention center where he is being held awaiting a final decision on his case?
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