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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. What happens to Jose's middle son that Jose tells Cantu he is worried about on page 168?
2. On page 157, what does Hayward tell Cantu about coming back to Border Patrol after a leave of absence?
3. On page 133, what cosmic event does Cantu imagine his relatives having witnessed?
4. What do Cantu and Beto help Manuel do on page 139?
5. Which war reporter does Cantu mention on page 150 as having examined the idea of "moral injury?
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 Hayward tell Cantu's new colleagues in Tucson, Beto and Manuel, about Cantu's skills?
3. What are the three categories of metaphors that sociologist Jane Zavisca identified in media coverage of migrant deaths?
4. What does Beto tell Cantu he thinks is a harbinger of death in his family on page 120?
5. What does Cantu tell Jose when Jose asks him if he ever found drugs at the border during his work for Border Patrol?
6. What does Beto tell Cantu about his background and his aspirations for his career with Border Patrol?
7. On page 135, what does Cantu say became the hallmark of Ciudad Juarez sometime around the mid-1990s?
8. What does the sicario tell the interviewers started to happen in his personal life after years of working for the cartel?
9. 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?
10. What does the woman whose feet Cantu bandages tell him about himself pn page 154?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Cantu's uncle's guilt about the work he did marring the natural landscape relate to Cantu's own feelings about the work he has done as a Border Patrol officer? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Soon after Cantu starts his field work with Border Patrol, he begins to get a sense that the work is not what he expected. He quickly becomes demoralized and disturbed both by what he sees and by the structural limitations of the job itself. Write an essay discussing how Cantu's earliest experiences performing field work with Border Patrol contradict his hopes and expectations about what the job would be like and what he may have been able to learn from it.
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