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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) 1000.
(b) 6,600.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 102,000.

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

3. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?
(a) Why did you come to the United States?
(b) Has anyone hurt you since you have been in the United States?
(c) Have you been threatened by gangs?
(d) When did you enter the United States?

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

5. Within what state is Luiselli's family when they first hear "about the wave of children arriving, alone and undocumented, at the border" (11)?
(a) New York.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?

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

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

4. What part of Luiselli's first-day plan goes awry due to the volume of refugee children she receives in the office?

5. In what month of 2014 was the refugee crisis discussed by Luiselli officially declared?

(see the answer key)

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