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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 father had gone missing.
(b) His aunt had moved away.
(c) His grandmother had died.
(d) His mother had died.

2. What is Manu's last name?
(a) Lopez.
(b) Laffrado.
(c) Torres.
(d) Dominguez.

3. What is the ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?
(a) To write a book about the refugee crisis.
(b) To build a defense against their deportation.
(c) To ensure they will be reunited with their families.
(d) To give them a safe space to tell their stories.

4. What is La Bestia?
(a) A gondola.
(b) A river system.
(c) A bus.
(d) A train.

5. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?
(a) 13.
(b) She says that she has never attended school.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Luiselli states unequivocally that all child refugees from Mexico and Central America travel with whom?

4. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?

5. Luiselli asserts that the main element needed to help the children involved in the refugee crisis since 2014 is what?

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