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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?
(a) A light bulb.
(b) Scaffolding.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A brick.

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

3. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 6,600.
(b) 102,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 1000.

4. 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?
(a) Roswell, New Mexico.
(b) Lexington, Kentucky.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) New York City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During what decade did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and the Barrio 18 gangs originate?

2. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?

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?

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?

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

(see the answer key)

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