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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The process by which a child refugee is asked questions during an intake interview is called what?
(a) Prioritizing.
(b) Triage.
(c) Lining.
(d) Screening.

2. In what city does Luiselli's family learn that many refugee children from Honduras are being deported back to their home country after just having arrived in the United States?
(a) Phoenix, Arizona.
(b) New York City.
(c) Lexington, Kentucky.
(d) Roswell, New Mexico.

3. What is NOT an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?
(a) Colder.
(b) Sunnier.
(c) More cynical.
(d) More brutal.

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

5. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

6. In what month of 2014 was the refugee crisis discussed by Luiselli officially declared?
(a) December.
(b) August.
(c) June.
(d) October.

7. What is the term for someone hired to accompany a migrant to a particular border?
(a) A bodyguard.
(b) A wolverine.
(c) A jackal.
(d) A coyote.

8. What is NOT contained in the police report Manu presents to Luiselli during her first-ever interview of a child refugee?
(a) Gang members had been threatening to kill him.
(b) Gang members had waited outside of the boy's high school every day.
(c) Gang members had been following the boy home.
(d) Gang members had been urging him to traffic drugs.

9. Which United States administration created the priority juvenile docket?
(a) Reagan.
(b) Carter.
(c) Trump.
(d) Obama.

10. What tool does Luiselli's family use to navigate during their road trip?
(a) A navigation app on their phones.
(b) Handwritten notes from prior research.
(c) A car GPS system.
(d) A map.

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

12. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?
(a) Bribe.
(b) Vigilante.
(c) Police.
(d) Border Patrol.

13. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?
(a) ICE officers.
(b) The police.
(c) Their relatives.
(d) Their social workers.

14. After the introduction of the priority juvenile docket, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?
(a) 21 months.
(b) 21 days.
(c) 24 months.
(d) 6 months.

15. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?
(a) Translating the children's answers for lawyers.
(b) Interviewing the children in court.
(c) Recording the children's answers.
(d) Getting coffee for her partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was the protest against the arrival of undocumented immigrants held in 2014, then becoming the object of the author's discussion?

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

3. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?

4. What is La Bestia?

5. 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)?

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