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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?
(a) 2011.
(b) 1990.
(c) 2014.
(d) 1999.

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) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.
(b) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(c) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.
(d) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.

3. To what object does Luiselli compare the boy's police report in an extended metaphor about its symbolism?
(a) A road map.
(b) A xylophone.
(c) A pencil sharpener.
(d) A paint set.

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

5. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?
(a) The Mexican government.
(b) The United States Department of Homeland Security.
(c) The Immigrant Children Advocates' Relief Effort.
(d) Amnesty International.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is La Bestia?

3. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?

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. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?

(see the answer key)

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