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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 120, why is Beto upset?
(a) He was afraid he was about to get fired.
(b) His mother was very ill.
(c) He was suffering from anxiety due to his relationship with his girlfriend.
(d) His cousin had died in Juarez the day before.

2. On page 133, what cosmic event does Cantu imagine his relatives having witnessed?
(a) A lunar eclipse.
(b) The impact of a huge meteor.
(c) A solar eclipse.
(d) The passage of Halley's Comet.

3. What does Carl Jung write towards the end of his life that Cantu cites on page 163?
(a) Man has always had the capacity for war.
(b) It is always useful to have someone on a lower run that oneself.
(c) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by.
(d) We are again living in an age filled with apocalyptic images of universal destruction.

4. On page 104, which city does Frances's daughter tell Cantu they can see?
(a) Cancun.
(b) El Paso.
(c) Tijuana.
(d) Juarez.

5. According to writer Rivera Garza, what does fear do?
(a) Galvanize.
(b) Isolate.
(c) Enrage.
(d) Terrify.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are painted on rocks Cantu can see on the Juarez Mountains on page 130?

2. What is Cantu's grandfather's name?

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

4. On page 141, what does Cantu tell Beto he is thinking of doing after leaving Border Patrol?

5. What does Cantu's old contact in Border Patrol tell him about Jose's family being able to speak with him at the courthouse on page 179?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does POW stand for at Border Patrol?

4. What does Beto tell Cantu about his background and his aspirations for his career with Border Patrol?

5. What does the sicario, or hit man for a cartel, tell Charles Bowden was an important symbolic part of disposing of the bodies of the people he killed?

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

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

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

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

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

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