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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many South and Central American migrants were found at the site of a mass grave in 2010?
(a) 63.
(b) 45.
(c) 72.
(d) 92.

2. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
(a) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.
(b) The field asking the child's current address.
(c) The field asking the name of the coyote associated with the child's journey.
(d) The field asking the date a child had departed from his or her home country.

3. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?
(a) A brick.
(b) Scaffolding.
(c) A light bulb.
(d) A blanket.

4. 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 on their birthday.
(c) They say a few months ago.
(d) They say last year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?

2. What is the ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?

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

4. Luiselli states that the media's final point about the refugee children often comes as a warning that if the children stay, they will take what action?

5. Luiselli describes how all immigrants view the cruelty of the United States' border as what type of object?

(see the answer key)

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