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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Community .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which question on the screening questionnaire does Luiselli describe as "the one that often opens Pandora's box" (73)?
(a) Why did you come to the United States?
(b) Has anyone paid you to transport items over the border?
(c) Do you feel safe and happy where you are living now?
(d) Did you ever have trouble with gangs or crime in your home country?

2. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) A foster family.

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

4. Which group of people does Luiselli NOT list when explaining the dangers of riding La Bestia?
(a) Policemen.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Smugglers.
(d) Snipers.

5. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?
(a) The police.
(b) Their relatives.
(c) Their social workers.
(d) ICE officers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Luiselli assert knows the answer to the question inquiring why people migrate from their home countries to the United States?

2. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?

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

4. How many South and Central American migrants were found at the site of a mass grave in 2010?

5. In what city does Luiselli's family learn that many refugee children from Honduras are being deported back to their home country after just having arrived in the United States?

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