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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what topic does Nimmi Gowrinathan deliver a lecture when visiting Luiselli's class?
(a) White privilege.
(b) Humanitarian efforts.
(c) Classism.
(d) Political activism.

2. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?
(a) Bureaucracy.
(b) Apathetic people.
(c) Holes.
(d) Idealists.

3. What moniker does the class decide to refer to itself as during a class meeting?
(a) A refugee crisis emergency squad.
(b) A humanitarian force to be reckoned with.
(c) A Spanish conversation class.
(d) A migration think tank.

4. Which question on the screening questionnaire does Luiselli describe as "the one that often opens Pandora's box" (73)?
(a) Why did you come to the United States?
(b) Do you feel safe and happy where you are living now?
(c) Did you ever have trouble with gangs or crime in your home country?
(d) Has anyone paid you to transport items over the border?

5. Luiselli states that she and her niece "almost always leave immigration court" (68) in what manner?
(a) In haste.
(b) Only when they are exhausted.
(c) In silence.
(d) With reluctance.

Short Answer Questions

1. One day while Luiselli and her niece are walking to the train station, Luiselli's niece that she has decided to major in what course of study?

2. What is Manu's last name?

3. 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?

4. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?

5. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?

(see the answer key)

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