Enrique's Journey Pr-Ch3 Vocabulary

She left them there when she _______________ north as a single mother to work in the United States.

• Galloped

• Ventured

• Mustered

• Remained

What kind of _______________, I wondered, pushes children as young as seven years old to set out, alone, through such a hostile landscape with nothing but their wits?

• desperation

• courage

• ignorance

• joy

To follow Enrique’s journey, I _______________ thirteen of Mexico’s thirty-one states.

• traversed

• ignored

• avoided

• skipped

With each step north, I became awed by the gritty _______________ these children possess in their struggle to get here.

• A) determination

• B) fear

• C) hesitation

• D) doubt

Although in the United States the women struggle to pay rent and eat, in the imaginations of their children back home they become _______________ itself, the answer to every problem.

• deliverance

• poverty

• ignorance

• fear

Enrique clings to his daddy, who _______________ on him.

• dotes

• ignores

• avoids

• fears

His hands would turn numb and ____________ after hours of hanging on.

• A) strong

• B) callous

• C) blistered

• D) warm

Migrants at the front of the train, nearest to the locomotive, call back a warning over the train’s deafening ______________.

• silence

• din

• speed

• halt

Of the half-dozen checkpoints Enrique has ______________ in southern Mexico, he fears La Arrocera most.

• passed

• avoided

• eluded

• ignored

Enrique has four jagged scars on his shins from ______________ efforts to board trains.

• successful

• frenzied

• dangerous

• cautious