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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Court.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
(a) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.
(b) The field asking the name of the coyote associated with the child's journey.
(c) The field asking the child's current address.
(d) The field asking the date a child had departed from his or her home country.

2. Whose point of view does Luiselli claim is always ignored within the struggle to understand the refugee crisis?
(a) The parents of the child refugees.
(b) The child refugees.
(c) The Democrats.
(d) The Republicans.

3. Which group of people does Luiselli NOT list when explaining the dangers of riding La Bestia?
(a) Policemen.
(b) Smugglers.
(c) Snipers.
(d) Thieves.

4. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?
(a) The United States Department of Homeland Security.
(b) The Mexican government.
(c) The Immigrant Children Advocates' Relief Effort.
(d) Amnesty International.

5. In what year did Luiselli begin working as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2006.
(c) 1992.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?

2. What form of transportation did Luiselli take to the immigration court on the author's first day of work?

3. During what decade did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and the Barrio 18 gangs originate?

4. In what city did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18 gangs originate?

5. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?

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