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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 activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reporting.
(c) Contacting the child refugees.
(d) Exercising.

2. The T visa is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(b) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(c) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.
(d) Victims of human trafficking.

3. A person with what job meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on Luiselli's first day of work at the New York immigration court?
(a) Social worker.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Interpreter.

4. Luiselli notes that every member of the organization that provides resources to child and teenage refugees has what quality?
(a) They are all African-American.
(b) They are all white.
(c) They are all women.
(d) They are all Latino/a.

5. Luiselli states, "It was clear that our only role in the court was to serve as a fragile and slippery" (67) what between the refugee children and the United States court system?
(a) Ladder.
(b) Rope.
(c) Hand clasp.
(d) Bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that much later, she had come to understand that what she and her niece "were really doing that morning [on the first day of their new jobs] was providing" what "for organizations dealing with an emergency" (38)?

2. With whom had the mother of the two Guatemalan girls left the girls when migrating to the United States?

3. The organization S.T.R.O.N.G. is a nonprofit that focuses on teenagers in what location who are vulnerable to falling prey to gangs?

4. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?

5. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?

(see the answer key)

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