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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 is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York City.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Mexico City.

2. According to Luiselli, what is most often the answer given when child refugees are asked their reason for coming to the United States?
(a) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.
(b) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.
(c) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.
(d) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.

3. Luiselli states unequivocally that all child refugees from Mexico and Central America travel with whom?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A humanitarian worker.
(c) A sibling.
(d) A parent.

4. A person with what job meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on Luiselli's first day of work at the New York immigration court?
(a) Interpreter.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Social worker.
(d) Lawyer.

5. 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) Flies.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Locusts.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what city did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18 gangs originate?

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?

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

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