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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is a saying about La Bestia that states, "Go in alive, come out a" (18) what?
(a) A werewolf.
(b) A mummy.
(c) A vampire.
(d) A skeleton.

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) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(d) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.

3. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?
(a) Getting coffee for her partner.
(b) Recording the children's answers.
(c) Translating the children's answers for lawyers.
(d) Interviewing the children in court.

4. 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) 35,000.
(d) 1000.

5. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?
(a) Honduras.
(b) The United States.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Guatemala.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the immigration crisis was officially declared, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?

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

3. 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?

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

5. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?

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