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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Door.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The FBI.
(d) Amnesty International.

2. Whose point of view does Luiselli claim is always ignored within the struggle to understand the refugee crisis?
(a) The Democrats.
(b) The parents of the child refugees.
(c) The child refugees.
(d) The Republicans.

3. What is La Bestia?
(a) A bus.
(b) A train.
(c) A river system.
(d) A gondola.

4. The Barrio 18 members had grown up in the gang culture of what city?
(a) Tijuana.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Mexico City.
(d) Quito.

5. Luiselli states unequivocally that all child refugees from Mexico and Central America travel with whom?
(a) A humanitarian worker.
(b) A sibling.
(c) A coyote.
(d) A parent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?

2. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?

3. During what decade did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and the Barrio 18 gangs originate?

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

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

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