Enrique's Journey - Part 2 (Chapters 3-6)

1. "His right shin is gashed. His upper lip is split. The left side of his face is swollen. His eyes are red, filled with blood. He is crying. He dabs at open wounds on his face with a filthy sweater he has found on the tracks." This excerpt describes Enrique's condition after...

• he fell off the train in Oaxaca

• He was brutally attacked and robbed in Las Anonas

• He has a fight with another migrant teen at the train station

• he spends 3 months lost in the Mexican desert

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2. On his journey, Enrique is captured by la migra and sent back to Guatemala 6 times. How does he travel back to Guatemala?

• on the Bus of Tears

• on top of la Bestia

• in an airplane

• he has to walk and then take a taxi

3. In the state of Chiapas, Enrique...

• got a job as a busboy in a Mexican restaurant

• was helped by the kindness of strangers

• made many new friends

• learned that the people there do not like migrants and he shouldn't trust anyone

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4. On his journey, Enrique is helped by all of the following EXCEPT

• Mayor Carrasco of Las Anones

• the women of Veracruz

• the Mexican immigration agents

• Padre Leo of San Jose

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5. How does Enrique make enough money to buy a phone card?

• washing dogs

• washing clothes

• washing dishes

• washing cars

6. El Tirindaro tattoos this on Enrique's chest

• Honduras por siempre

• EnriqueLourdes

• ElHongo

• MariaIsabel

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7. When Enrique finally calls his mother in North Carolina

• she is angry that he left Honduras without telling her his plans

• she tells him it is safer to go back and live with his abuela

• she agrees to pay $1,200 to get him across the Rio Grande to the U.S.

• she begs him to stay in Mexico until her husband can safely pick him up

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8. In the film "Which Way Home," some of the commonalities with the book include all of the following EXCEPT

• migrants riding on top of trains

• migrants receiving help and food from generous people along the way

• migrants losing limbs from falling under the train

• migrants getting sick from drinking polluted water

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9. The organization "Las Patronas" began when

• a group of neighbors rescued a little boy who lost his father on the train

• two cousins helped a man who had lost his legs to La Bestia

• two sisters gave their breakfast food and milk to hungry migrants

• a church group began offering migrants a place to sleep

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10. "In the cemetery he is close enough to the tracks to hear the train coming, its diesel engine growling and its horns blaring..." This description of the train uses an example of

• simile

• personification

• symbolism

• allusion

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