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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In what year did Luiselli begin working as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?
(a) 2006.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2001.

4. With whom had the mother of the two Guatemalan girls left the girls when migrating to the United States?
(a) Their cousin.
(b) Their aunt.
(c) Their stepfather.
(d) Their grandmother.

5. During what season does Luiselli set out on a road trip with her family?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Fall.
(d) Summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?

2. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?

3. A lawyer eventually reveals that the list upon the whiteboard is meant to help children recall the phases of their what during the interview?

4. Luiselli states that if the sisters' "answers didn't align with what the law considers reason enough for the right to protection, the only possible ending to their story was going to be" (66) what?

5. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?

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