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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?
(a) Border Patrol.
(b) Police.
(c) Vigilante.
(d) Bribe.

2. According to Luiselli, what is most often the answer given when child refugees are asked their reason for coming to the United States?
(a) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(b) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.
(c) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.
(d) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.

3. In what month of 2014 was the refugee crisis discussed by Luiselli officially declared?
(a) June.
(b) August.
(c) December.
(d) October.

4. 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) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Social worker.
(d) Interpreter.

5. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?
(a) A brick.
(b) A light bulb.
(c) A blanket.
(d) Scaffolding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?

2. To what object does Luiselli compare the boy's police report in an extended metaphor about its symbolism?

3. In what borough of New York City is the organization located that provides immigrant children and teenagers with valuable resources?

4. Which of Manu's family members does he say had always been the one to send money?

5. Before the immigration crisis was officially declared, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?

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