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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Mississippi.
(c) New York.
(d) Kansas.

3. What objects are set out for the entertainment of the younger children being interviewed?
(a) Video games.
(b) Board games.
(c) Books.
(d) Crayons and paper.

4. The process by which a child refugee is asked questions during an intake interview is called what?
(a) Prioritizing.
(b) Lining.
(c) Triage.
(d) Screening.

5. What is La Bestia?
(a) A bus.
(b) A gondola.
(c) A river system.
(d) A train.

6. A person with what job meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on Luiselli's first day of work at the New York immigration court?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Interpreter.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Social worker.

7. How many South and Central American migrants were found at the site of a mass grave in 2010?
(a) 45.
(b) 63.
(c) 72.
(d) 92.

8. Luiselli states that much later, she had come to understand that what she and her niece "were really doing that morning [on the first day of their new jobs] was providing" what "for organizations dealing with an emergency" (38)?
(a) Backup.
(b) Security.
(c) An excuse.
(d) A tourniquet.

9. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?
(a) English.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Russian.
(d) Spanish.

10. Whose point of view does Luiselli claim is always ignored within the struggle to understand the refugee crisis?
(a) The Democrats.
(b) The child refugees.
(c) The Republicans.
(d) The parents of the child refugees.

11. Before the immigration crisis was officially declared, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 12 months.

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

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

14. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?
(a) New York City.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Detroit.

15. There is a saying about La Bestia that states, "Go in alive, come out a" (18) what?
(a) A skeleton.
(b) A werewolf.
(c) A vampire.
(d) A mummy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?

2. Which president of the United States was involved in enacting the Indian Removal Act?

3. In what city was the protest against the arrival of undocumented immigrants held in 2014, then becoming the object of the author's discussion?

4. Luiselli describes Manu's police report as ending with what kind of sentiment by the police?

5. What is the ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?

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