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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city was the protest against the arrival of undocumented immigrants held in 2014, then becoming the object of the author's discussion?
(a) Tempe, Arizona.
(b) Oracle, Arizona.
(c) Mesa, Arizona.
(d) Phoenix, Arizona.

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

3. 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.

4. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Contacting the child refugees.
(b) Writing.
(c) Exercising.
(d) Reporting.

5. The organization called TIIA has an acronym that plays on the Spanish word for what English term?
(a) Sister.
(b) Mother.
(c) Aunt.
(d) Brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?

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 Manu's police report as ending with what kind of sentiment by the police?

4. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?

5. In what month of 2015 does Luiselli report beginning the essay entitled Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?

(see the answer key)

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