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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tool does Luiselli's family use to navigate during their road trip?
(a) A car GPS system.
(b) A map.
(c) A navigation app on their phones.
(d) Handwritten notes from prior research.

2. During what season does Luiselli set out on a road trip with her family?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Fall.

3. 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?
(a) Subway.
(b) Taxi.
(c) Train.
(d) Trolley.

4. The person who meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on the author's first day of work at the New York immigration court introduces the author immediately to two members of what organization?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The Door.
(c) The CIA.
(d) Amnesty International.

5. Within what state is Luiselli's family when they first hear "about the wave of children arriving, alone and undocumented, at the border" (11)?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what country had Manu fled, ending up in the screening room with Luiselli?

3. There is a saying about La Bestia that states, "Go in alive, come out a" (18) what?

4. Luiselli's students told her that they wanted to transform one type of capital into another. What type of capital did they want to trade for another?

5. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?

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