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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 Jose go back to Mexico for several weeks on page 176?
(a) He has a home there he is selling.
(b) He needs to pick up some important documents he left there.
(c) He wants to interview for a job there.
(d) His mother is dying and he wants to see her and be with her.

2. What does Jose's private immigration attorney tell Cantu and Diane about Jose's case?
(a) It will be hard but not impossible.
(b) The case will require family members to come to the U.S. from Mexico to testify in Jose's favor.
(c) It will be a very expensive process.
(d) It will be easy to convince the judge Jose should stay.

3. Who is Jose's court-appointed attorney?
(a) Walter.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Scott.
(d) Atticus.

4. Who is Jose's wife?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Maxine.
(c) Gabriella.
(d) Lupe.

5. What does the sicario say his dreams made him realize about his work and private lives?
(a) There was no longer a dividing line between his work and private lives.
(b) He had to leave his family and private life completely behind to keep doing his work.
(c) His private life was the only think still keeping him going.
(d) His work meant everything to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Jose originally from?

2. What does one woman being sentenced in immigration court tell the judge that prompts him to say someone will see her at the detention facility?

3. On page 106, what does researcher Molly Molloy believe about the reporting on the statistics of homicides in Mexico since 2007?

4. Which poet re-imagined the Greek tragedy Antigone set in modern Mexico?

5. On page 117, what does Cantu dream about that is disturbing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three categories of metaphors that sociologist Jane Zavisca identified in media coverage of migrant deaths?

2. 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?

3. Cantu's mother was surprised when she finally met her long-estranged father. Why?

4. What Greek story does Cantu mention and compare to some of the tragedies he sees playing out in the desert through his job?

5. What does Hayward tell Cantu's new colleagues in Tucson, Beto and Manuel, about Cantu's skills?

6. On page 135, what does Cantu say became the hallmark of Ciudad Juarez sometime around the mid-1990s?

7. Why does Cantu tell Hayward he will likely stop working for Border Patrol on page 157?

8. How does Cantu's uncle in Santa Fe feel about the work he has done his whole life?

9. What was Cantu's original birth name, and why did Cantu's mother change his name?

10. What does the woman whose feet Cantu bandages tell him about himself pn page 154?

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