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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. On page 157, what does Hayward tell Cantu about coming back to Border Patrol after a leave of absence?
(a) If Cantu takes a leave of absence, he can come back, but at the lowest position level possible.
(b) Hayward wants to keep Cantu as an employee, and he can arrange for Cantu to come back after a leave of absence.
(c) Hayward wants Cantu to take a leave of absence and then come back to take a much higher-level position.
(d) If Cantu takes a leave of absence, he can not come back.

2. Which Italian filmmaker participated in the interviews with the former hit man for the drug cartels in 2008?
(a) Matteo Baggheti.
(b) Franco Zefferelli.
(c) Frances Ford Coppola.
(d) Gianfranco Rosi.

3. What words are painted on rocks Cantu can see on the Juarez Mountains on page 130?
(a) Si Se Puede.
(b) Vive Libre o Muere.
(c) La Biblia Es La Verdad, Leela.
(d) La Verdad es Belleza.

4. Where does Cantu go hiking on page 148?
(a) The Smoky Mountains.
(b) The Franklin Mountains.
(c) The Rocky Mountains.
(d) The Guadalupe Mountains.

5. Why does Jose have problems getting back into the U.S. from Mexico?
(a) He is an undocumented immigrant and was stopped at the border and detained.
(b) His passport was expired.
(c) He had lost his green card.
(d) He was carrying drugs into the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jose's private immigration attorney?

2. What does Beto tell Cantu about his aspirations for a career when he was a child?

3. What is one of Jose's jobs?

4. What is the term for the genetic deficiency that predisposes certain people to acts of hostility?

5. What does Jose's court-appointed attorney say about Cantu's former colleague Morales on page 187?

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 Cantu tell Jose when Jose asks him if he ever found drugs at the border during his work for Border Patrol?

3. What does Cantu write that Carl Jung said the meaning of a savage animal in a dream was?

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

5. What does Cantu do to try to help Jose when he has trouble with U.S. immigration after leaving the U.S. to visit his dying mother in Mexico?

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

7. 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?

8. What does the U.S. Marshal from the courtroom give to one of Jose's sons that surprises Jose's defense attorney?

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

10. What does POW stand for at Border Patrol?

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