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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Manu say about why he stopped residing with the person with whom he had lived the previous year?
(a) His grandmother had died.
(b) His mother had died.
(c) His father had gone missing.
(d) His aunt had moved away.

2. Luiselli states that "the main problem with asylum is that if it's granted, the children can never" (59) take what action?
(a) Recover their belongings without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(b) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(c) Leave the United States without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(d) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their citizen status in their home countries.

3. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 6,600.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 1000.
(d) 102,000.

4. What does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?
(a) She tells her daughter that she does not know how it ends yet.
(b) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.
(c) She tells her daughter that she will never know how it ends.
(d) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.

5. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?
(a) 54%.
(b) 64%.
(c) 94%.
(d) 34%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose point of view does Luiselli claim is always ignored within the struggle to understand the refugee crisis?

2. The family member Manu describes as the one who had always been the one sending money had lived in what location?

3. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?

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

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