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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. How much does Jose's private immigration attorney charge for her services?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $8,000.
(d) $4,000.

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

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

4. Which war reporter does Cantu mention on page 150 as having examined the idea of "moral injury?
(a) David Wood.
(b) Ernie Pyle.
(c) Steve Coll.
(d) David Halberstam.

5. What do Cantu and Beto help Manuel do on page 139?
(a) Move houses.
(b) Apply for citizenship.
(c) Build a shed.
(d) Study for an important exam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cantu go hiking on page 148?

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

3. What had just happened in Cantu's family right before he and his mother traveled to Mexico for the first time?

4. What does Jung say it means if one dreams of a savage animal?

5. What is Cantu's birth name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does POW stand for at Border Patrol?

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

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

4. What did Mexican president Felipe Calderon base his campaign on?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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