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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 month of 2015 does Luiselli report beginning the essay entitled Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) November.
(b) June.
(c) January.
(d) March.

2. At the end of Part Four, Luiselli quotes a little girl stating her reason for coming to the United States. What does the little girl say was her reason for coming?
(a) Because she wanted to survive.
(b) Because she wanted to find her mother.
(c) Because she wanted to make her parents proud.
(d) Because she wanted to arrive.

3. The Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang started as a small coalition of immigrants from what country?
(a) El Salvador.
(b) Guatemala.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Brazil.

4. 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?
(a) Roswell, New Mexico.
(b) New York City.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Lexington, Kentucky.

5. With whom does Luiselli live?
(a) Her husband and his son and her daughter.
(b) Her husband and her two daughters.
(c) Her husband and his son.
(d) Her husband and their two sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words does Luiselli say migrants learn when they are on their way to the United States?

2. One day while Luiselli and her niece are walking to the train station, Luiselli's niece that she has decided to major in what course of study?

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

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

5. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?

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