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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. Who is Jose's private immigration attorney?
2. 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?
3. On page 133, what cosmic event does Cantu imagine his relatives having witnessed?
4. Who accompanies Jose's wife and children to the courtroom along with Cantu?
5. What kind of job does Cantu work in on page 167?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does the woman whose feet Cantu bandages tell him about himself pn page 154?
3. How does Jose and his family come to be connected with his private defense attorney, Elizabeth Green?
4. How does Cantu get to know Jose, and how does their friendship grow?
5. What Greek story does Cantu mention and compare to some of the tragedies he sees playing out in the desert through his job?
6. What was Cantu's original birth name, and why did Cantu's mother change his name?
7. What does Beto tell Cantu about his background and his aspirations for his career with Border Patrol?
8. Cantu's mother was surprised when she finally met her long-estranged father. Why?
9. What does the sicario tell the interviewers started to happen in his personal life after years of working for the cartel?
10. How does Cantu's uncle in Santa Fe feel about the work he has done his whole life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing what Cantu's attendance at his great-Aunt France's funeral, and his contact with his extended family there, reveals about his feelings and attitudes towards his own ethnic and cultural heritage.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Cantu does not have a relationship with his father, but he and his mother are very close and he is able, at times, to confide in her about his problems and hopes. Write an essay analyzing the meaning of Cantu's relationship with his mother, and how this relationship underscores one of the book's themes about the importance of close family bonds.
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