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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A person with what job meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on Luiselli's first day of work at the New York immigration court?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Social worker.
(d) Interpreter.

2. What is NOT an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?
(a) More cynical.
(b) Colder.
(c) More brutal.
(d) Sunnier.

3. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?
(a) Recording the children's answers.
(b) Interviewing the children in court.
(c) Translating the children's answers for lawyers.
(d) Getting coffee for her partner.

4. 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?
(a) New York City.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Roswell, New Mexico.
(d) Lexington, Kentucky.

5. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?
(a) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
(b) The Chamizal Convention.
(c) The Treaty of Dannemora.
(d) The TRIPS agreement.

Short Answer Questions

1. The process by which a child refugee is asked questions during an intake interview is called what?

2. Within what state is Luiselli's family when they first hear "about the wave of children arriving, alone and undocumented, at the border" (11)?

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. Which president of the United States was involved in enacting the Indian Removal Act?

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?

(see the answer key)

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