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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 102,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 1000.
(d) 6,600.

2. What form of transportation did Luiselli take to the immigration court on the author's first day of work?
(a) Taxi.
(b) Train.
(c) Subway.
(d) Segway.

3. How old was Luiselli's niece at the time she accompanied her aunt to Luiselli's first day as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?
(a) 12.
(b) 19.
(c) 32.
(d) 24.

4. In what city was the protest against the arrival of undocumented immigrants held in 2014, then becoming the object of the author's discussion?
(a) Mesa, Arizona.
(b) Tempe, Arizona.
(c) Oracle, Arizona.
(d) Phoenix, Arizona.

5. The Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang started as a small coalition of immigrants from what country?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Mexico.
(c) El Salvador.
(d) Guatemala.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?

2. What is NOT a way in which Luiselli's family learns information about the developing child refugee crisis during their road trip?

3. Which United States administration created the priority juvenile docket?

4. What object does Luiselli claim is "in a way, a replica of the U.S. immigration system" (35)?

5. In what city does Luiselli's family learn that many refugee children from Honduras are being deported back to their home country after just having arrived in the United States?

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