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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Court.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Luiselli describes the media's treatment of the child refugees, what metaphor does she use to represent how the media treats the children?
(a) Mosquitoes.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Locusts.
(d) Flies.

2. The three countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras make up the area of the world called what?
(a) The Northern Triangle.
(b) The Eastern Triangle.
(c) The Southern Triangle.
(d) The Western Triangle.

3. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Detroit.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

4. In what borough of New York City is the organization located that provides immigrant children and teenagers with valuable resources?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Manhattan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of people does Luiselli NOT list when explaining the dangers of riding La Bestia?

2. 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)?

3. What is the term for someone hired to accompany a migrant to a particular border?

4. Luiselli describes how all immigrants view the cruelty of the United States' border as what type of object?

5. What type of transportation do Luiselli and her niece utilize to get home from their first day conducting interviews, causing the author to think of the mystical quality of the boy's police report?

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