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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?
(a) The United States Department of Homeland Security.
(b) The Immigrant Children Advocates' Relief Effort.
(c) Amnesty International.
(d) The Mexican government.

2. The Barrio 18 members had grown up in the gang culture of what city?
(a) Quito.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Tijuana.
(d) Mexico City.

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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 backpack.
(c) In his shoe.
(d) In his hat.

7. 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) A brick.
(d) Scaffolding.

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

9. 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 government acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(c) Until every involved charity organization acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(d) Until every involved polluter acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.

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

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

12. The process by which a child refugee is asked questions during an intake interview is called what?
(a) Triage.
(b) Prioritizing.
(c) Lining.
(d) Screening.

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

14. Which group of people does Luiselli NOT list when explaining the dangers of riding La Bestia?
(a) Smugglers.
(b) Policemen.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Snipers.

15. 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) Train.
(b) Subway.
(c) Taxi.
(d) Trolley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which president of the United States was involved in enacting the Indian Removal Act?

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?

3. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?

4. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?

5. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?

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