Q 01/05

In El Norte, which animals swarm Enrique and Rosa as they crawl under the border into California?

A) Bats

B) Rats

C) Snakes

D) Spiders

Answer · why

B) Rats

Rats attack the pair in the film's most harrowing scene, and they were real: disease-free animals bought from a laboratory. The actress playing Rosa h...

Q 02/05

From which Central American country do Enrique and Rosa flee at the start of El Norte?

A) Guatemala

B) El Salvador

C) Honduras

D) Nicaragua

Answer · why

A) Guatemala

Guatemala was then deep in a civil war in which the army wiped out whole Maya villages, the persecution that drives the pair from home.

Q 03/05

Working as a maid in El Norte, Rosa is baffled by which household appliance her employer shows her?

A) A garbage disposal

B) A dishwasher

C) A washing machine

D) A microwave oven

Answer · why

C) A washing machine

A washing machine with a bewildering set of controls defeats Rosa, so she spreads the clothes out on the grass to dry in the sun instead.

Q 04/05

What does the title of Gregory Nava's immigration drama El Norte mean in English?

A) The Border

B) The Journey

C) The Dream

D) The North

Answer · why

D) The North

The North is the characters' name for the United States, which Enrique and Rosa come to imagine as a promised land.

Q 05/05

Which California city is the destination where Enrique and Rosa find work in El Norte's final part?

A) Los Angeles

B) San Francisco

C) Sacramento

D) Oakland

Answer · why

A) Los Angeles

Los Angeles is where the pair land jobs and English classes, and the filmmakers spent years researching among exiles living in Southern California.