1. Why does Laetitia move away from home?
A. She wants to live with her boyfriend
B She and her mother have a huge argument
C She is pregnant
D She is bored

2. The word is used for someone who smuggles people across the Mexico-U. S. border
A coyote
B border patrolista
C ranchera
D cougar

3. The first thing that went wrong on Diez’s ill-fated trip was that.
A a woman became delirious and died
B a rash stuck those who had been slashed by cactus needles
C Diez got in a fistfight with his coyote trainee
D the group was spotted by a Border Patrol helicopter

4. In the poem “Mexicans Begin Jogging,” why does the speaker run when the immigration officers raid the factory when he works?
A He’s not a legal U. S. citizen
B He’s terrified that his boss will fire him if he does not.
C he’s afraid of his fellow workers finding out he’s not an illegal like them.
D His boss tells him to run, and he is on his boss’s time.

Choose the word or phrase that best matched the word in italics from question 5-6.
5. [H]e had a confidence that protruded like a muscles beyond his thin physique…
A hurt
B rubbed
C caved in
D stuck out

6. You extinguish them all, send them to the hospital.
A exite
B turn on
C quench
D deliver

7. The neighbor of the speaker in the poem “Mending Wall” belives
A “good fences make good neighbors.”
B “good neighbors make good friends.”
C his wall will keep out wild animals and other predators.
D his wall mak him forget what he fears.

8. Before he would build a wall, the speaker in “Mending wall” would want to know
A what he was walling in or walling out.
B who might be profiting form it.
C what his family would think of it
D how effective it was going to be

9. In “I Am the Land. I wait.,” the speaker is
A an Italian woman
B an angry environmentalist
C some binoculars.
D the land.

10 What is it that angers the speaker in the poem “I Am the Land. I wait.,”
A the prospect of being changed and fenced
B the idea of being cut into smaller parcels
C the problem of getting people to conserve
D the difficulties of writing “green” poetry

11. The speaker of the poem “Your world” goes from living a small nest ina corner to
A being composed into a larger flock of birds.
B being devoured by the family’s hungry cat.
C soaring “to the uttermost reaches” of the sky.
D thriving with other wildlife in a big airy barn.

12. According to McBride, the roots of hip-hop music began in
A West Africa centuries ago.
B a 19th-century slave ship.
C the streets of Harlem.
D Puerto Rico and Jamaica.

13 Hip-hop music is a type of music that is
A popular wherever there is a large minority population.
B globally popular.
C popular in two places- West Africa and the Bronx
D steadily losing its popularity.

14. The tone of the poem “Ka’Ba” versus the tone of the poem “Harlem II” might be described as
A grateful vs. ungrateful
B certain vs. doubtful.
C hopeful vs. defeated.
D safe vs. dangerous.

Choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics for questions 15-16.

15. Dr. Smith had a rational for giving his students “A’s”: he believed grades hindered learning.
A choice
B promise
C reason
D manifesto

16. One affuent suburb decided to outlaw bus stops in its neighborhoods.
A backward
B groomed
C scheming
D wealthy

17. What could save black people, according to poet Amiri Barka in his poem, Ka’Ba”
A the “scared words” that free their imaginations
B rich benefactors in major cities
C a socialist political system
D discarding tired beliefs about racism

18. What images does Langston Hughes use in his poem “Harlem II”
A rasins in the sun
B festering sores
C stinky, rotten meat
D all of the above

19. In the story “Borders,” what answer will the mother not provide to the border guards?
A her tribal citizenship
B her national citizenship
C her last name in English
D her last name in Blackfoot language