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

2. Luiselli describes how all immigrants view the cruelty of the United States' border as what type of object?
(a) A thin crust.
(b) A crack in the veneer.
(c) A fly in the ointment.
(d) A hard outer shell.

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

4. 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?
(a) They will vote along Republican lines.
(b) They will reproduce.
(c) They will contribute to white flight.
(d) They will vote along Democratic lines.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that for her family's first three years living in the United States, they had been termed as what by immigration law?

2. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?

3. Which group of people does Luiselli NOT list when explaining the dangers of riding La Bestia?

4. Luiselli states unequivocally that all child refugees from Mexico and Central America travel with whom?

5. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?

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