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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 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 they do not know.
(b) They say a few months ago.
(c) They say on their birthday.
(d) They say last year.

2. In what borough of New York City is the organization located that provides immigrant children and teenagers with valuable resources?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) The Bronx.

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 paint set.
(c) A xylophone.
(d) A pencil sharpener.

4. The person who meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on the author's first day of work at the New York immigration court introduces the author immediately to two members of what organization?
(a) The FBI.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The Door.

5. Luiselli notes that every member of the organization that provides resources to child and teenage refugees has what quality?
(a) They are all Latino/a.
(b) They are all white.
(c) They are all women.
(d) They are all African-American.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A lawyer eventually reveals that the list upon the whiteboard is meant to help children recall the phases of their what during the interview?

3. To what type of building does Luiselli compare the screening room where she interviews child refugees?

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

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

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