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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?
(a) The Immigrant Children Advocates' Relief Effort.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) The United States Department of Homeland Security.
(d) The Mexican government.

2. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?
(a) Removable.
(b) Unable to apply for asylum or immigrant status.
(c) A resident.
(d) An alien.

3. How old was Luiselli's niece at the time she accompanied her aunt to Luiselli's first day as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?
(a) 12.
(b) 24.
(c) 32.
(d) 19.

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

5. The Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang started as a small coalition of immigrants from what country?
(a) Guatemala.
(b) El Salvador.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tool does Luiselli's family use to navigate during their road trip?

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?

3. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?

4. When Luiselli describes the media's treatment of the child refugees, what metaphor does she use to represent how the media treats the children?

5. What objects are set out for the entertainment of the younger children being interviewed?

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