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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. According to Luiselli, what is most often the answer given when child refugees are asked their reason for coming to the United States?
(a) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(b) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.
(c) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.
(d) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.

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

4. In what city did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18 gangs originate?
(a) Tijuana.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Rio.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. What is NOT an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?
(a) Colder.
(b) More brutal.
(c) More cynical.
(d) Sunnier.

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

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

8. What type of transportation do Luiselli and her niece utilize to get home from their first day conducting interviews, causing the author to think of the mystical quality of the boy's police report?
(a) Subway.
(b) Taxi.
(c) Train.
(d) Trolley.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?
(a) Mexico.
(b) The United States.
(c) Honduras.
(d) Guatemala.

15. A lawyer eventually reveals that the list upon the whiteboard is meant to help children recall the phases of their what during the interview?
(a) Struggle.
(b) Future.
(c) Journey.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?

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. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?

5. 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?

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