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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. Of the 10,000 Guatemalans who reached the U.S. between 1983 and 1986, how many asylum petitions were granted?

2. On June 28, 2007, how many immigrants would receive legal status if the U.S. Senate voted for a comprehensive immigration reform bill?

3. What did Eddie Anzora earn when he first began working at a call center in El Salvador?

4. In 2007 when Eddie Anzora was deported, how many weekly deportation flights landed in San Salvador?

5. Between October 2013 and September 2014, how many children arrived unaccompanied at the border?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the INS reform agenda as lead by Doris Meissner in 1993?

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

3. What business did Eddie start in 2016?

4. What happened when Trump signed a travel ban after taking office?

5. Who was Jeff Sessions, and how did he contribute to Trump's campaign for president?

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

7. What did Juliana Ramirez remember about her father's death?

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

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

10. What were the government rules for how to treat immigrant children at the border?

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

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 3

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?

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