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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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) Nonresident aliens.
(b) Pending aliens.
(c) Resident aliens.
(d) Removable aliens.

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

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

5. Luiselli asserts that until what action is taken, "solutions to the [refugee] crisis will be impossible" (46)?
(a) Until every involved financial institution acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(b) Until every involved charity organization acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(c) Until every involved government acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(d) Until every involved polluter acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.

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

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

8. 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) 6,600.
(c) 102,000.
(d) 1000.

9. 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?
(a) 12.
(b) 19.
(c) 32.
(d) 24.

10. What form of transportation did Luiselli take to the immigration court on the author's first day of work?
(a) Taxi.
(b) Subway.
(c) Train.
(d) Segway.

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

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

13. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
(a) The field asking the name of the coyote associated with the child's journey.
(b) The field asking the child's current address.
(c) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.
(d) The field asking the date a child had departed from his or her home country.

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) Guatemala.
(b) Honduras.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) El Salvador.

15. What is the ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?
(a) To ensure they will be reunited with their families.
(b) To give them a safe space to tell their stories.
(c) To write a book about the refugee crisis.
(d) To build a defense against their deportation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which United States administration created the priority juvenile docket?

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)?

3. Luiselli notes that every member of the organization that provides resources to child and teenage refugees has what quality?

4. In what city did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18 gangs originate?

5. What is La Bestia?

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