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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what country had Manu fled, ending up in the screening room with Luiselli?
(a) Honduras.
(b) El Salvador.
(c) Guatemala.
(d) Mexico.

2. What is Manu's last name?
(a) Torres.
(b) Lopez.
(c) Dominguez.
(d) Laffrado.

3. Luiselli asserts that a state compliance review ruled the practice of schools asking for immigration paperwork as what?
(a) An act of hate crime.
(b) Unconstitutional.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Improper.

4. The Guatemalan girls in Luiselli's depiction of their interview are what ages?
(a) 5 and 7.
(b) 9 and 13.
(c) 12 and 15.
(d) 2 and 3.

5. What moniker does the class decide to refer to itself as during a class meeting?
(a) A migration think tank.
(b) A refugee crisis emergency squad.
(c) A humanitarian force to be reckoned with.
(d) A Spanish conversation class.

6. Luiselli states that she and her niece "almost always leave immigration court" (68) in what manner?
(a) With reluctance.
(b) In haste.
(c) In silence.
(d) Only when they are exhausted.

7. Luiselli states, "It was clear that our only role in the court was to serve as a fragile and slippery" (67) what between the refugee children and the United States court system?
(a) Rope.
(b) Ladder.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Hand clasp.

8. What does Luiselli say is always the children's reaction when they hear the words ganga or pandillero?
(a) They are ashamed at the mention of the words.
(b) They are saddened by the mention of the words.
(c) They are terrified by the mention of the words.
(d) They are excited by the mention of the words.

9. The U visa is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(b) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(c) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.
(d) Victims of human trafficking.

10. The family member Manu describes as the one who had always been the one sending money had lived in what location?
(a) New York City.
(b) Mexico.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Honduras.

11. Who else had lived with Manu prior to a year ago, besides his guardian?
(a) His uncle and three cousins.
(b) His grandfather and sister.
(c) His cousin and brother.
(d) His two cousins.

12. The words migrants learn as they are on their way to the United States contain the sentiment that to leave is to do what a little?
(a) Live.
(b) Melt.
(c) Break.
(d) Die.

13. What does the term catracho mean?
(a) A person from Chile.
(b) A person from Juarez.
(c) A person from Honduras.
(d) A person from Mexico City.

14. The organization called TIIA has an acronym that plays on the Spanish word for what English term?
(a) Mother.
(b) Brother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Aunt.

15. Luiselli states that "the main problem with asylum is that if it's granted, the children can never" (59) take what action?
(a) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their citizen status in their home countries.
(b) Recover their belongings without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(c) Leave the United States without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(d) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that by November 2015, what event had still not happened?

2. Luiselli's students told her that they wanted to transform one type of capital into another. What type of capital did they want to trade for another?

3. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?

4. Luiselli states that "It only takes a group of ten motivated students to begin making" (95) what kind of difference?

5. What is the title of Part Four of Valeria Luiselli's essay Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?

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