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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. 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?

2. In 1980, how many more Haitians landed at American ports than in the 1970s?

3. Where was Alfredo Cristiani, the head of the Alianza Republicana Nacionalists (ARENA), educated?

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

5. How much did Congress give Reagan in 1984 when he warned of the consequences of Communist subversion in Central America?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Romagoza escape from smugglers?

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

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

4. Who was Ramon Dagoberto Quinones, and what role did he play in helping Salvadorans?

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

6. How and why was Romagoza captured and tortured?

7. How did Eddie Anzora and his family come to the U.S.?

8. In the early 1960s, who controlled 90% of El Salvador's wealth?

9. How did Romero die?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stephen Miller came to immigration polices after 9/11. He first worked for Sessions and then at the White House under Trump. What was Miller’s role in setting immigration policy?

Essay Topic 2

An epiphany is a realization that can be enlightening and help solve a situation or problem. What epiphanies did Cecilia Munoz and Keldy Mabel Gonzales Brebe de Zuniga experience, and what changes did they make because of those epiphanies?

Essay Topic 3

Myrna Mack Chang was an anthropologist who studied displaced indigenous peoples. Why was Myrna murdered?

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