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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Community .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objects are set out for the entertainment of the younger children being interviewed?
(a) Board games.
(b) Video games.
(c) Books.
(d) Crayons and paper.

2. The Barrio 18 members had grown up in the gang culture of what city?
(a) Quito.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Mexico City.
(d) Tijuana.

3. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will unlearn what system?
(a) The moral code.
(b) The legal system.
(c) The metric system.
(d) The public transportation system.

4. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?
(a) Her 36th.
(b) Her 13th.
(c) Her 100th.
(d) Her 1st.

5. In what year did Luiselli begin working as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2006.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?

2. The day before the two sisters left Guatemala, their grandmother sewed what number into the collars of their dresses?

3. What does Manu say about why he stopped residing with the person with whom he had lived the previous year?

4. What is the ultimate result of Manu's encounter with the gang who waits outside of his school one day?

5. What type of transportation do Luiselli and her niece utilize to get home from their first day conducting interviews, causing the author to think of the mystical quality of the boy's police report?

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