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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. In 1989, how much nonmilitary aid did Congress agree to give the Contras monthly until February 1990?

2. 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?

3. In 1952, how much was United Fruit paying employees?

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

5. When did the worst of the massacres occur in Guatemala?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why was Romagoza captured and tortured?

2. Who was Juan Romagoza?

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

4. What raids were conducted by Colonel Domingo Monterrosa in December 1981?

5. How did Romero die?

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

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

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

9. How did Victoria Anzora support her family?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Metaphors and similes are figures of speech that are used to make comparisons between things. Metaphors seem to imply an equal comparison, while similes seem to imply a similarity between two things. How does Blitzer’s use of metaphors and similes shape the reader’s understanding of events and experiences in Everyone Who Here Is Gone?

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

Eddie Anzora was a Salvadoran immigrant who was brought to the U.S. as a child to escape violence in his home country. Romagoza was a Salvadoran doctor who was brutally tortured, leaving him with permanent injuries. How did El Salvador’s civil war and its aftermath shape the lives and choices of both Eddie and Romagoza?

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