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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what type of building does Luiselli compare the screening room where she interviews child refugees?
(a) A church.
(b) A funeral home.
(c) A school.
(d) A doctor's office.

2. Luiselli states that much later, she had come to understand that what she and her niece "were really doing that morning [on the first day of their new jobs] was providing" what "for organizations dealing with an emergency" (38)?
(a) A tourniquet.
(b) Security.
(c) Backup.
(d) An excuse.

3. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?
(a) Scaffolding.
(b) A light bulb.
(c) A brick.
(d) A blanket.

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

5. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?
(a) Are you a member of the Socialist party?
(b) Have you ever knowingly committed a crime of moral turpitude?
(c) Are you a member of the Communist party?
(d) Do you intend to practice polygamy?

6. Which president of the United States was involved in enacting the Indian Removal Act?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

7. Luiselli states that the media's final point about the refugee children often comes as a warning that if the children stay, they will take what action?
(a) They will reproduce.
(b) They will vote along Republican lines.
(c) They will vote along Democratic lines.
(d) They will contribute to white flight.

8. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?
(a) Have you been threatened by gangs?
(b) Has anyone hurt you since you have been in the United States?
(c) Why did you come to the United States?
(d) When did you enter the United States?

9. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 80.
(d) 60.

10. What year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?
(a) 1990.
(b) 2014.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2011.

11. How old was Luiselli's niece at the time she accompanied her aunt to Luiselli's first day as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?
(a) 24.
(b) 32.
(c) 19.
(d) 12.

12. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1901.

13. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?
(a) 64%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 54%.
(d) 94%.

14. In what city did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18 gangs originate?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Tijuana.
(c) Rio.
(d) Los Angeles.

15. Within what state is Luiselli's family when they first hear "about the wave of children arriving, alone and undocumented, at the border" (11)?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) New York.
(d) Oklahoma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli describes Manu's police report as ending with what kind of sentiment by the police?

2. What part of Luiselli's first-day plan goes awry due to the volume of refugee children she receives in the office?

3. What is the term for someone hired to accompany a migrant to a particular border?

4. There is a saying about La Bestia that states, "Go in alive, come out a" (18) what?

5. A person with what job meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on Luiselli's first day of work at the New York immigration court?

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