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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 the ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?
(a) To build a defense against their deportation.
(b) To give them a safe space to tell their stories.
(c) To ensure they will be reunited with their families.
(d) To write a book about the refugee crisis.

2. 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 date a child had departed from his or her home country.
(b) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.
(c) The field asking the name of the coyote associated with the child's journey.
(d) The field asking the child's current address.

3. In what city was the protest against the arrival of undocumented immigrants held in 2014, then becoming the object of the author's discussion?
(a) Mesa, Arizona.
(b) Tempe, Arizona.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Oracle, Arizona.

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

5. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?
(a) Have you been threatened by gangs?
(b) When did you enter the United States?
(c) Why did you come to the United States?
(d) Has anyone hurt you since you have been in the United States?

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Luiselli live?

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

3. What tool does Luiselli's family use to navigate during their road trip?

4. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?

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

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