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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Security.
(b) A tourniquet.
(c) An excuse.
(d) Backup.

3. Luiselli states that the media's final point about the refugee children often comes as a warning that if the children stay, they will take what action?
(a) They will contribute to white flight.
(b) They will vote along Republican lines.
(c) They will reproduce.
(d) They will vote along Democratic lines.

4. When Luiselli describes the media's treatment of the child refugees, what metaphor does she use to represent how the media treats the children?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Flies.

5. 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) Mesa, Arizona.
(b) Tempe, Arizona.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Oracle, Arizona.

6. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1886.
(d) 1830.

7. The three countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras make up the area of the world called what?
(a) The Southern Triangle.
(b) The Eastern Triangle.
(c) The Northern Triangle.
(d) The Western Triangle.

8. In what month of 2014 was the refugee crisis discussed by Luiselli officially declared?
(a) June.
(b) August.
(c) October.
(d) December.

9. 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 seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.
(b) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(c) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.
(d) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.

10. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?
(a) 60.
(b) 80.
(c) 40.
(d) 25.

11. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?
(a) In his pants pocket.
(b) In his hat.
(c) In his shoe.
(d) In his backpack.

12. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?
(a) Two million.
(b) Half a million.
(c) A million.
(d) Two hundred thousand

13. 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) Kansas.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) New York.

14. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?
(a) 64%.
(b) 54%.
(c) 94%.
(d) 34%.

15. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?
(a) Translating the children's answers for lawyers.
(b) Recording the children's answers.
(c) Getting coffee for her partner.
(d) Interviewing the children in court.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Luiselli's first-day plan goes awry due to the volume of refugee children she receives in the office?

2. What is NOT contained in the police report Manu presents to Luiselli during her first-ever interview of a child refugee?

3. To what type of building does Luiselli compare the screening room where she interviews child refugees?

4. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?

5. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?

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