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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 was Eddie accosted at a pupusa stand while drinking hot chocolate?

2. How long was Elena Sandoval held captive by her ex-boyfriend, Carlos?

3. When was homicide investigator Jose Merida Escobar gunned down and shot four times in the face?

4. Where was Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old who had been murdered by teens in 2008, from?

5. During public protests over the 2017 election, how many demonstrators were killed by security forces?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the 1996 immigration law trap undocumented immigrants in the U.S.?

2. What became an unofficial policy regarding immigrant families crossing the border in 2017 and why?

3. How and why was Eddie Anzora arrested in 1997?

4. Why did the elections in Honduras need to be a success story in 2017?

5. What type of evidence might be used to determine if a high school student was a gang member?

6. What was the result of the trial against Generals Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and Jose Guillermo Garcia?

7. How did the Mack family come to live in Guatemala?

8. What did a deportation officer want Keldy to sign after she lost her asylum case?

9. In Chapter 30, why did the Salvadoran government plead with the U. S. ambassador and officials at the State Department to slow deportations or institute screening?

10. What devastation was caused by Hurricane Mitch in Honduras?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sanctuary volunteers helped with everything from assisting migrants across the border, providing shelter through churches or safe houses, offering legal aid, raising bond money for detainees, or filling out asylum applications. How did the sanctuary movement begin and evolve?

Essay Topic 2

MS-13 became “public enemy number one” (331). What unintended consequences did ordinary immigrants experience when the U.S. government began to crackdown on MS-13 and other gang members?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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