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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?
(a) Two hundred thousand
(b) A million.
(c) Half a million.
(d) Two million.

2. Luiselli asserts that until what action is taken, "solutions to the [refugee] crisis will be impossible" (46)?
(a) Until every involved charity organization acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(b) Until every involved government acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(c) Until every involved financial institution acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(d) Until every involved polluter acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.

3. What is NOT a way in which Luiselli's family learns information about the developing child refugee crisis during their road trip?
(a) Online searches.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Radio.
(d) Calls from family members in Mexico.

4. Luiselli asserts that the main element needed to help the children involved in the refugee crisis since 2014 is what?
(a) The privatization of the coyote role.
(b) Lawyers who will work pro bono.
(c) Doctors who will work for limited pay.
(d) Methods of communication between children and parents.

5. Luiselli states that for her family's first three years living in the United States, they had been termed as what by immigration law?
(a) Pending aliens.
(b) Removable aliens.
(c) Resident aliens.
(d) Nonresident aliens.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?

3. Luiselli notes that every member of the organization that provides resources to child and teenage refugees has what quality?

4. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?

5. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?

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