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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Trolley.
(b) Taxi.
(c) Subway.
(d) Train.

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

4. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?
(a) Are you a member of the Communist party?
(b) Are you a member of the Socialist party?
(c) Have you ever knowingly committed a crime of moral turpitude?
(d) Do you intend to practice polygamy?

5. 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) The CIA.
(c) Amnesty International.
(d) The Door.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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