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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?
(a) In his pants pocket.
(b) In his shoe.
(c) In his hat.
(d) In his backpack.

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

3. 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 on their birthday.
(c) They say last year.
(d) They say they do not know.

4. According to Luiselli, what is most often the answer given when child refugees are asked their reason for coming to the United States?
(a) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.
(b) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(c) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.
(d) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.

5. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
(a) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.
(b) The field asking the date a child had departed from his or her home country.
(c) The field asking the child's current address.
(d) The field asking the name of the coyote associated with the child's journey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what object does Luiselli compare the boy's police report in an extended metaphor about its symbolism?

3. How many South and Central American migrants were found at the site of a mass grave in 2010?

4. Luiselli states that most of the children involved in the refugee crisis of 2014 are from all but which of the following countries?

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

(see the answer key)

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