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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in February of 2017?
2. What is the title of Part 3, Chapter 11?
3. What is the name of the fictional president depicted in An American President?
4. What did President George W. Bush shutter when he created the Department of Homeland Security?
5. What is the title of Part 3, Chapter 12?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the author's thirtieth birthday party described?
2. What are some of the many things that an "illegal" cannot do, according to the author in Part 3, Chapter 2?
3. What is Define American and when was it founded?
4. How does the author describe his "emotional borders" in Part 3, Chapter 3 (187)?
5. Who was the only person to ask the author a question after his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2013? What was asked?
6. What led to the author's arrest and detainment in 2014?
7. How does the author compare his "second coming out" with his first "coming out"?
8. What did the lawyers that Vargas spoke to before writing his "coming out" essay advise him to do?
9. When was the author's "coming out" essay published? Where was it published and what reaction did it initially receive?
10. What was "Operation Gatekeeper" and how successful was it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does "being an American citizen" mean to you? How has this book influenced your thinking on what citizenship means? What does citizenship NOT mean?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. When were these governmental organizations created? What are their missions? What percentage of the U.S. budget is dedicated to these organizations?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the policies of U.S. Immigration during the Obama presidency. How did Obama's administration differ with those before it in terms of deportations and legal immigration? What policies focused on refugees? Does the author have a positive or negative opinion of Obama's immigration policies? Why?
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