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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 the term catracho mean?
(a) A person from Honduras.
(b) A person from Mexico City.
(c) A person from Juarez.
(d) A person from Chile.

2. 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 will never know how it ends.
(c) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.
(d) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.

3. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?
(a) Her 36th.
(b) Her 13th.
(c) Her 1st.
(d) Her 100th.

4. After what length of time working with the Door in the immigration court cases does Luiselli begin to experience "feelings of frustration and defeat"?
(a) After a month.
(b) After a year.
(c) After two weeks.
(d) After a few months.

5. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?
(a) She says that she is albierto.
(b) She says that she is a chilanga.
(c) She says that she is a catracho.
(d) She says she is a gato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?

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

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

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

5. The Barrio 18 members had grown up in the gang culture of what city?

(see the answer key)

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