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Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.Before the train leaves, the gangsters roam the Tapachula depot, eyeing which migrants are buying food and where they stash their cash afterward. They try to get friendly with the migrants, telling them they have already done the train ride. Maybe they can offer tips? Many of the gangsters wear white plastic rosaries around their necks so the migrants will be less suspicious. They ask, "Where are you from? Where are you going? Do you have any money?"

It helps create uneasiness.

It helps create trust.

It helps create hope.

It helps create calmness.

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Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.He was five years old when his mother left him. Now he is almost another person. In the window glass, he sees a battered young man, scrawny and disfigured.It angers him, and it steels his determination to push northward.Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."Children from Central America have been making that journey, often without their parents, for two decades. But lately something has changed, and the predictable flow has turned into an exodus. Three years ago, about 6,800 children were detained by United States immigration authorities and placed in federal custody; this year, as many as 90,000 children are expected to be picked up.

In the first excerpt, the author uses facts and statistics, while in the second excerpt, the author uses words that appeal to readers’ emotions.

In the first excerpt, the author relies on third-person point of view, while in the second excerpt, the author uses first-person point of view.

In the first excerpt, the author uses words to persuade the reader, while in the second excerpt, the author uses language to entertain the reader.

In the first excerpt, the author uses narrative techniques and figurative language, while in the second excerpt, the author includes facts to persuade.

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”By sending these children away, "you are handing them a death sentence,” says José Arnulfo Ochoa Ochoa, an expert in Honduras with World Vision International, a Christian humanitarian aid group. This abrogates international conventions we have signed and undermines our credibility as a humane country. It would be a disgrace if this wealthy nation turned its back on the 52,000 children who have arrived since October, many of them legitimate refugees.

They draw attention to the opinion that the United States is not doing enough to help these children.

They show that there is a desperate need for all countries to be willing to help refugees.

They show that the United States has participated in international conventions on how to handle the refugee crisis.

They make it clear that the United States will lose the respect of other nations if it does not help these children.

Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.Enrique puts Chiapas behind him. He still has far to go, but he has faced the beast eight times now, and he has lived through it. It is an achievement, and he is proud of it.The excerpt refers to Chiapas as "the beast.” What is the purpose of using this metaphor in the excerpt?

to show how threatening travel through Chiapas is

to show that few people are able to live in Chiapas

to show how many dishonest people live in Chiapas

to show that Chiapas has the most immigration checkpoints

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."If many children don’t meet strict asylum criteria but face significant dangers if they return, the United States should consider allowing them to stay using humanitarian parole procedures we have employed in the past, for Cambodians and Haitians. It may be possible to transfer children and resettle them in other safe countries willing to share the burden.

to express an opinion about US asylum policies

to prompt feelings of sympathy in the reader

to suggest a suspenseful atmosphere about the asylum process

to provide facts and details about Cambodian and Haitian children

Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.He was five years old when his mother left him. Now he is almost another person.Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."Children from Central America have been making that journey, often without their parents, for two decades.

Both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents.

Both describe what immigrant children must do to survive when traveling to the United States.

Both explain why most children want to leave Central America without their parents.

Both indicate the tragic problems and their consequences that children in Central America must face.

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”These children are facing threats similar to the forceful conscription of child soldiers by warlords in Sudan or during the civil war in Bosnia. Being forced to sell drugs by narcos is no different from being forced into military service.Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.The MS gangsters decide to retaliate and throw the gangster off the train. Enrique refuses to participate, creating a rift. "If you are MS, you have to kill 18th Streeters. And if you are 18th Street, you must kill MS. I wasn't like that," Enrique says.After the fight with his friends, halfway through Chiapas, the gang members stop riding with Enrique. That night, without their protection, the six men beat him on top of the train.

Both describe situations in which people have to leave their country to find a better life.

Both describe situations in which people are expected to commit crimes or face violence.

Both describe situations in which people have the ability to improve their lives by following orders.

Both describe situations in which people are given a choice between doing what is expected or doing what is right.

Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.During his first attempts north, a chance meeting saved Enrique from the worst of the gangs. As he set out on his trip, he noticed another teenager, a gangster named El Brujo, at the bus station in Honduras waiting to go to the Mexican border. Enrique doesn’t like gangs. But as the two spent hours traveling through Honduras and Guatemala together, they became friends. On their first train ride through Chiapas, El Brujo introduced Enrique to a dozen other MS members, among them Big Daddy, who is skinny and short; El Chino (the Chinaman), who has slanted eyes; and El Payaso (the Clown), who has a big mouth and eyes. On subsequent trips, when he was deported, he always stuck with one of these gang members to protect himself from any attacks.

It helps create an element of suspicion.

It shows that Enrique is resourceful.

It shows that Enrique is a gangster.

It explains Enrique’s motives for traveling north.

Which statement best supports the author’s purpose in "Children of the Drug Wars,” which is to persuade readers that the United States should do more to help immigrant children from Honduras?

“Three years ago, about 6,800 children were detained by United States immigration authorities and placed in federal custody; this year, as many as 90,000 children are expected to be picked up.”

“These children are facing threats similar to the forceful conscription of child soldiers by warlords in Sudan or during the civil war in Bosnia. Being forced to sell drugs by narcos is no different from being forced into military service.”

“Judges, who currently deny seven in 10 applications for asylum by people who are in deportation proceedings, must better understand the conditions these children are facing.”

“By deporting them directly from the refugee centers, the United States would discourage future non-refugees by showing that immigrants cannot be caught and released, and then avoid deportation by ignoring court orders to attend immigration hearings.”

How does the meaning of the underlined word, prowl, support the author’s purpose in this excerpt? Select two options.

It illustrates that the police overlook the gangsters’ crimes.

It shows what happens when police allow gangsters to operate.

It indicates that the gangsters are looking for vulnerable people.

It explains why the gangsters were sent back to their home countries.

It supports the idea that the gangsters are involved in criminal activities.

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