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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 homicide investigator Jose Merida Escobar gunned down and shot four times in the face?

2. How old was Juan Gomez's daughter when she disappeared for three days with a teenage boy in March 2016?

3. Where was Keldy's sister working when Keldy crossed the border with Erick and Patrick?

4. Where was Scott Mechkowski's mother from?

5. When did the attorney general in El Salvador begin arresting government officials who had been involved in the truce between gangs and the government?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Brentwood High School like?

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

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

5. Why were Guatemalans who came to the U.S. often dismissed as economic migrants?

6. How did Elena Sandoval escape from her ex-boyfriend, Carlos?

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

8. What was the village like where Trump spoke on a Thursday morning in April 2016?

9. Who were the Dreamers, and what promises were made to them?

10. What was it like for Eddie Anzora when he and his brother arrived in El Salvador?

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

A nonfiction narrator should be impartial and present an unbiased account of their subject matter. What qualities make a narrator reliable, and does Blitzer succeed in presenting an objective account of immigration?

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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