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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 does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?
(a) She tells her daughter that she does not know how it ends yet.
(b) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.
(c) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.
(d) She tells her daughter that she will never know how it ends.

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

3. What happened to cause Luiselli to have to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) A client filed a lawsuit against her.
(b) A lawyer needed her full-time help with a case.
(c) Her passport expired.
(d) Her work permit expired.

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?
(a) New York.
(b) Florida.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Massachusetts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of court must make a ruling before a child immigrant can even request Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status in the immigration court?

2. Luiselli states that "It only takes a group of ten motivated students to begin making" (95) what kind of difference?

3. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?

4. The words migrants learn as they are on their way to the United States contain the sentiment that to leave is to do what a little?

5. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?

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