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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following cities suffered damage during the Mexican Revolution?
2. What does Beto tell Cantu about his aspirations for a career when he was a child?
3. 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?
4. On page 101, which elderly relative of Cantu's dies?
5. What does the sicario describe as his experience in going to a prayer service at a Christian church?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jose and his family come to be connected with his private defense attorney, Elizabeth Green?
2. 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?
3. On page 135, what does Cantu say became the hallmark of Ciudad Juarez sometime around the mid-1990s?
4. What does the woman whose feet Cantu bandages tell him about himself pn page 154?
5. How does Cantu get to know Jose, and how does their friendship grow?
6. Who asks Cantu to help Jose when it becomes clear he is having trouble getting back into the U.S.?
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 did Mexican president Felipe Calderon base his campaign on?
10. What does POW stand for at Border Patrol?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At different points in the book, Cantu listens to and trades insults and stories in graphic language with his colleagues at Border Patrol, who are all men. Write an essay analyzing what the sometimes crude and sexual language they use reveals about the work culture in the Border Patrol sector.
Essay Topic 2
Cantu cites research by various linguists that has examined the dehumanizing language media professionals, politicians, and others often use to describe undocumented immigrants. Write an essay analyzing the various different manifestations of cultural bias towards undocumented immigrants as they appear through common uses of language that Cantu discusses.
Essay Topic 3
When Cantu is transferred to a desk job in intelligence at the Border Patrol Office in Tucson, Arizona, he has a difficult time adjusting to the work. Write an essay analyzing Cantu's feelings about the change in his job duties and why it is so difficult for him to transfer from field work to desk work.
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