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

2. Luiselli notes that every member of the organization that provides resources to child and teenage refugees has what quality?
(a) They are all white.
(b) They are all Latino/a.
(c) They are all women.
(d) They are all African-American.

3. According to Luiselli, what is most often the answer given when child refugees are asked their reason for coming to the United States?
(a) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.
(b) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.
(c) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(d) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.

4. What object does Luiselli claim is "in a way, a replica of the U.S. immigration system" (35)?
(a) The building at 26 Federal Plaza.
(b) The Capitol Building.
(c) The White House.
(d) The Empire State Building.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?

2. What is the term for someone hired to accompany a migrant to a particular border?

3. During what season does Luiselli set out on a road trip with her family?

4. What did Luiselli decide would be the topic of study within the first class she taught at Hofstra University?

5. The words migrants learn on the way to the United States contains the sentiment that to arrive is what?

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