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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. When did El Salvadoran agricultural laborers stage an insurrection against the nation's coffee-growing elite?

2. Before the Refugee Act was passed in March of 1980, roughly how many asylum seekers arrived in the U.S. yearly?

3. When Barack Obama took office in 2009, how many asylum cases were in backlog?

4. How old was Eddie Anzora when he and a fellow MCP tagger went up and down Melrose Avenue, covering everything they could with their initials?

5. How long did Romagoza have to work at the restaurant in Mexico in order to save money for his siblings and their families to escape El Salvador?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of people were were coming to the U.S. from Cuba in 1980?

2. How did Romero die?

3. Who prompted Romagoza to file for asyum and why?

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

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

6. How did Laura, Romagoza's girlfriend, die, and what happened to their daughter?

7. How did Romagoza become active in the San Francisco sanctuary movement?

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

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

10. How and why was Romagoza captured and tortured?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cecilia Muñoz was an immigration activist before she worked in the Obama White House. How did she have to find a balance between advocacy and politics?

Essay Topic 2

Everyone Who is Gone is Here highlights the motives that drove migrants to seek asylum, and the obstacles faced by them and by the United States as their destination. What factors caused so many migrants to seek asylum, and what challenges did both they and the U.S. encounter as a result?

Essay Topic 3

Keldy Mabel Gonzales Brebe de Zuniga was separated from her sons when she crossed the border because of the El Paso pilot program. In what ways did the El Paso pilot program use family separation as a deterrence strategy, and how are those methods revealed through Keldy’s experiences?

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