1. The woman recalls attending a vigil outside of what kind of establishment a few months before the road trip?
(a) A detention center.
(b) A prison.
(c) A library.
(d) A courthouse.

2. About how many languages does the woman say are spoken in New York City?
(a) 500.
(b) 800.
(c) 120.
(d) 1,200.

3. The immigration detention center in New Mexico to which Manuela's daughters are transferred had formerly been what kind of building?
(a) A Target.
(b) A library.
(c) A Walmart.
(d) A strip mall.

4. After the man and woman are finished with their language project, the man takes on a project about what Native tribe?
(a) Comanche.
(b) Osage.
(c) Iroquois.
(d) Apache.

5. In what type of dwelling had the man, woman, boy, and girl first lived together?
(a) An immigration detention facility.
(b) A house.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A commune.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman states that in the past "six or seven months" (18) over how many undocumented children from Mexico and the Northern Triangle had been detained at the southern U.S. border?

2. What emotion does the woman say that the boy "normally represses" (37)?

3. Manuela reports to the woman that her two daughters have disappeared somewhere between two detention centers in what states?

4. What is NOT something to which the woman has been accustomed within the confines of the car during the road trip?

5. How old is the boy upon the narrative's opening?

(see the answer key)

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