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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Social worker.
(d) Interpreter.

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

4. What is NOT listed by Luiselli as a way that children refugees answer the question about when they had entered the United States?
(a) They say a few months ago.
(b) They say on their birthday.
(c) They say they do not know.
(d) They say last year.

5. Luiselli describes how all immigrants view the cruelty of the United States' border as what type of object?
(a) A thin crust.
(b) A crack in the veneer.
(c) A hard outer shell.
(d) A fly in the ointment.

6. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?
(a) A light bulb.
(b) A blanket.
(c) Scaffolding.
(d) A brick.

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

8. Which United States administration created the priority juvenile docket?
(a) Obama.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Carter.
(d) Trump.

9. What is NOT contained in the police report Manu presents to Luiselli during her first-ever interview of a child refugee?
(a) Gang members had waited outside of the boy's high school every day.
(b) Gang members had been urging him to traffic drugs.
(c) Gang members had been following the boy home.
(d) Gang members had been threatening to kill him.

10. Luiselli states that for her family's first three years living in the United States, they had been termed as what by immigration law?
(a) Removable aliens.
(b) Pending aliens.
(c) Nonresident aliens.
(d) Resident aliens.

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

12. After the introduction of the priority juvenile docket, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?
(a) 21 months.
(b) 21 days.
(c) 24 months.
(d) 6 months.

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

14. Luiselli states that most of the children involved in the refugee crisis of 2014 are from all but which of the following countries?
(a) El Salvador.
(b) Venezuela.
(c) Honduras.
(d) Guatemala.

15. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?
(a) When did you enter the United States?
(b) Have you been threatened by gangs?
(c) Has anyone hurt you since you have been in the United States?
(d) Why did you come to the United States?

Short Answer Questions

1. The Barrio 18 members had grown up in the gang culture of what city?

2. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?

3. 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)?

4. How old was Luiselli's niece at the time she accompanied her aunt to Luiselli's first day as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?

5. A lawyer eventually reveals that the list upon the whiteboard is meant to help children recall the phases of their what during the interview?

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