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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Ryan Eller live when the author met him?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Texas.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Tennessee.

2. Where is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation located?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) North Dakota.
(d) Tennessee.

3. Approximately how many people are employed by Customs and Border Protection, according to the author in Part 3, Chapter 7?
(a) 90,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 60,000.

4. According to a 2014 article in Politico, how much of our tax dollars have been spent on border and immigration control since 9/11, according to the author in Part 3, Chapter 7?
(a) $150 billion.
(b) $100 billion.
(c) $75 billion.
(d) $50 billion.

5. Where did the author's uncle Conrad fly in from to attend the author's thirtieth birthday dinner?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Portland.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Diego.

6. What does "ITIN" stand for?
(a) Impending Taxpayer Identification Number.
(b) Independent Taxpayer Identification Number.
(c) Individual Taxpayer Identification Number.
(d) Immigrant Taxpayer Identification Number.

7. What is the title of Part 3, Chapter 7?
(a) "Thirty."
(b) "Lawyers."
(c) "The Machine."
(d) "Second Coming Out."

8. Who is the president of the Philippines (as of September, 2020)?
(a) Rodrigo Duterte.
(b) Craig Walker.
(c) Don Graham.
(d) Rufus Jeffris.

9. What is the title of Part 3, Chapter 3?
(a) "Outlaw."
(b) "Facing Myself."
(c) "Lawyers."
(d) "Distant Intimacy."

10. Who was the editor of The New Yorker that was uninterested in publishing the author's essay on coming out as an undocumented immigrant?
(a) Don Graham.
(b) Peter Baker.
(c) Len Downie.
(d) David Remnick.

11. What did the interviewer call the man who brought the author into America in Part 3, Chapter 10?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A cougar.
(d) A camel.

12. The amount of taxes that the IRS collects from undocumented workers is almost how much in Montana?
(a) $2.2 million.
(b) $3.1 billion.
(c) $3.9 million.
(d) $5.3 million.

13. When was the author detained by immigration officials?
(a) January, 2013.
(b) July, 2014.
(c) September, 2014.
(d) November, 2014.

14. What was the title of the cover story on undocumented immigrants written by the author for Time magazine?
(a) "The Days of ICE and Waiting in Terror."
(b) "Off the Rails."
(c) "Living in Unknown Times."
(d) "We Are Americans, Just Not Legally."

15. Where was the busiest land crossing in the world in 1994?
(a) Del Rio - Cuidad Acuna.
(b) San Diego - Tijuana.
(c) McAllen - Reynosa.
(d) El Paso - Juarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in February of 2017?

2. What percentage of children attending the Crazy Horse School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation live below the poverty line?

3. Who wrote the poem "The White Man's Burden"?

4. Who wrote the book The Fire Next Time?

5. According to the SSA, unauthorized workers have paid approximately how much into the fund over the past decade?

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