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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. What is La Bestia?
(a) A train.
(b) A river system.
(c) A bus.
(d) A gondola.

2. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?
(a) Are you a member of the Communist party?
(b) Do you intend to practice polygamy?
(c) Are you a member of the Socialist party?
(d) Have you ever knowingly committed a crime of moral turpitude?

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?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Flies.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Locusts.

4. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?
(a) A million.
(b) Two million.
(c) Two hundred thousand
(d) Half a million.

5. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1886.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?

2. Luiselli states that the media's final point about the refugee children often comes as a warning that if the children stay, they will take what action?

3. What is NOT listed by Luiselli as a way that children refugees answer the question about when they had entered the United States?

4. What is the term for someone hired to accompany a migrant to a particular border?

5. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?

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