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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Part I: Border.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what season does Luiselli set out on a road trip with her family?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

2. What year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2011.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1990.

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

4. Which president of the United States was involved in enacting the Indian Removal Act?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what city was the protest against the arrival of undocumented immigrants held in 2014, then becoming the object of the author's discussion?

3. 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?

4. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?

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

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