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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a way in which Luiselli's family learns information about the developing child refugee crisis during their road trip?
(a) Online searches.
(b) Calls from family members in Mexico.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Radio.

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

3. 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) Social worker.
(c) Interpreter.
(d) Lawyer.

4. 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 white.
(c) They are all Latino/a.
(d) They are all African-American.

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

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 blanket.
(b) A light bulb.
(c) Scaffolding.
(d) A brick.

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

8. To what object does Luiselli compare the boy's police report in an extended metaphor about its symbolism?
(a) A pencil sharpener.
(b) A road map.
(c) A paint set.
(d) A xylophone.

9. What year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2014.

10. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 102,000.
(c) 1000.
(d) 6,600.

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

12. Luiselli states unequivocally that all child refugees from Mexico and Central America travel with whom?
(a) A humanitarian worker.
(b) A sibling.
(c) A parent.
(d) A coyote.

13. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?
(a) Their social workers.
(b) Their relatives.
(c) The police.
(d) ICE officers.

14. To what type of building does Luiselli compare the screening room where she interviews child refugees?
(a) A school.
(b) A church.
(c) A doctor's office.
(d) A funeral home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?

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

3. What tool does Luiselli's family use to navigate during their road trip?

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

5. The process by which a child refugee is asked questions during an intake interview is called what?

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