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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?
(a) 40.
(b) 80.
(c) 60.
(d) 25.

2. What is NOT listed by Luiselli as a way that children refugees answer the question about when they had entered the United States?
(a) They say a few months ago.
(b) They say last year.
(c) They say on their birthday.
(d) They say they do not know.

3. Which group of people does Luiselli NOT list when explaining the dangers of riding La Bestia?
(a) Snipers.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Smugglers.
(d) Policemen.

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

5. Whose point of view does Luiselli claim is always ignored within the struggle to understand the refugee crisis?
(a) The parents of the child refugees.
(b) The child refugees.
(c) The Republicans.
(d) The Democrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Luiselli live?

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. When Luiselli describes the media's treatment of the child refugees, what metaphor does she use to represent how the media treats the children?

4. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?

5. What is NOT contained in the police report Manu presents to Luiselli during her first-ever interview of a child refugee?

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