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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. When Barack Obama took office in 2009, how many asylum cases were in backlog?
(a) Half a million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) Quarter of a million.
(d) 1.5 million.

2. In 1952, how much was United Fruit paying employees?
(a) 75 cents a day.
(b) 50 cents a day.
(c) 25 cents a day.
(d) 20 cents a day.

3. When did El Salvadoran agricultural laborers stage an insurrection against the nation's coffee-growing elite?
(a) April 11, 1955.
(b) March 19, 1941.
(c) February 5, 1928.
(d) January 22, 1932.

4. When did a different population from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, begin traveling to the U.S. to seek asylum?
(a) After 2013.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2015.
(d) Around 2014.

5. How old was Romagoz's grandfather when he died of a heart attack?
(a) 61.
(b) 54.
(c) 52.
(d) 68.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1981, what percent of the Guatemalan population was Indigenous Maya?

2. In the summer of 1981, how many asylum applications Fife and Corbett filed with the INS were rejected?

3. In 1980 in what city were all the nuns and priests said to be in league with the gurrillas?

4. When did a group of El Salvadorans attempt to reach the U.S. through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument?

5. How often were gubernatorial elections held in Arkansas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What job did Romagoza take so he could work at La Clinica, and why did he carry his tools up and down stairs?

2. How did Victoria Anzora support her family?

3. How did the population of Salvadorans living in Los Angeles and U.S. change during the Salvadoran civil war?

4. Why did Romagoza credit Romero with restoring his belief in God?

5. Why did students like Juan Romagoza bring information to Archbishop Oscar Romero?

6. Who was indicted in the Arizona sanctuary movement, and what were the charges?

7. How was Romagoza able to help his siblings escape El Salvador, and where did his siblings go once they left?

8. What were three categories refugees could fall into?

9. Why did Hutchison not help Nicaraguan men who had fled their country?

10. How did Romagoza escape his captors after being arrested?

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