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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luiselli states that to take what action "is the founding myth of" (98) American society?
(a) To leave.
(b) To succeed.
(c) To belong.
(d) To stay.

2. After what length of time working with the Door in the immigration court cases does Luiselli begin to experience "feelings of frustration and defeat"?
(a) After a month.
(b) After a few months.
(c) After a year.
(d) After two weeks.

3. During what decade did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and the Barrio 18 gangs originate?
(a) The 1990s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 2000s.
(d) The 1970s.

4. The person who meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on the author's first day of work at the New York immigration court introduces the author immediately to two members of what organization?
(a) The Door.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The CIA.
(d) Amnesty International.

5. Luiselli's students told her that they wanted to transform one type of capital into another. What type of capital did they want to trade for another?
(a) They wanted to trade political capital for monetary capital.
(b) They wanted to trade political capital for emotional capital.
(c) They wanted to trade emotional capital for political capital.
(d) They wanted to trade material capital for political capital.

Short Answer Questions

1. The T visa is granted by the United States government to whom?

2. What type of person is NOT listed among the people Luiselli brought to speak to her first group of students at Hofstra University?

3. What right does Luiselli say "United States law guarantees" for all children, "no matter their nationality or immigrant status" (92)?

4. The words migrants learn on the way to the United States contains the sentiment that to arrive is what?

5. What does Luiselli say is always the children's reaction when they hear the words ganga or pandillero?

(see the answer key)

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