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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Contacting the child refugees.
(b) Writing.
(c) Reporting.
(d) Exercising.

3. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?
(a) Clark.
(b) King.
(c) Broward.
(d) Nassau.

4. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?
(a) 5.
(b) 13.
(c) She says that she has never attended school.
(d) 12.

5. When the Luiselli's students present their plan outlining the rest of the semester, how do they want to spend the remaining class time?
(a) Cleaning up the neighborhood.
(b) Writing to the Legislature.
(c) Administering care to refugee children.
(d) Creating a political student organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What point of view does Luiselli say she utilizes when recording the children's answers to her interview questions?

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

3. Luiselli states that "the main problem with asylum is that if it's granted, the children can never" (59) take what action?

4. Which of Manu's family members does he say had always been the one to send money?

5. The T visa is granted by the United States government to whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What solidified belief does Luiselli carry about the child refugees, based on her experiences screening such children at The Door?

2. When the Spanish Conversation class led by Luiselli renounces their name, what do they call the class instead and why is their choice significant?

3. What kinds of professionals did Luiselli bring in to speak to her Advanced Conversation class?

4. What were three things Alina reported being told when a school denied entry to Manu during her search?

5. How long after Luiselli's first interview of Manu Lopez did Luiselli see him again and what took place at that meeting?

6. Discuss an instance in Part III: Home when Luiselli uses a simile to indicate powerlessness.

7. Discuss the irony Luiselli finds in the determination of a so-called correct answer in the context of immigration court.

8. Describe Luiselli's employment of imagery in order to get across what it feels like for immigrants once they have been in the United States for a sustained period of time.

9. What do Luiselli's students mean when they say, "We don't want to be voluntourists in our own town anymore"? (93)

10. How does the theme of sacrifice arise within the final passages of Part IV: Community?

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