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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 an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?
(a) More brutal.
(b) Colder.
(c) More cynical.
(d) Sunnier.

2. 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) Why did you come to the United States?
(d) When did you enter the United States?

3. During what decade did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and the Barrio 18 gangs originate?
(a) The 1990s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 2000s.
(d) The 1980s.

4. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?
(a) 64%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 54%.
(d) 94%.

5. What type of transportation do Luiselli and her niece utilize to get home from their first day conducting interviews, causing the author to think of the mystical quality of the boy's police report?
(a) Subway.
(b) Train.
(c) Trolley.
(d) Taxi.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Luiselli begin working as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?

2. To what object does Luiselli compare the boy's police report in an extended metaphor about its symbolism?

3. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?

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

5. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?

(see the answer key)

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