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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The person who meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on the author's first day of work at the New York immigration court introduces the author immediately to two members of what organization?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The Door.
(c) The FBI.
(d) Amnesty International.

3. 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) 6 months.
(d) 24 months.

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

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

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

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

8. In what city was the protest against the arrival of undocumented immigrants held in 2014, then becoming the object of the author's discussion?
(a) Tempe, Arizona.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Mesa, Arizona.
(d) Oracle, Arizona.

9. Where is the planned ultimate destination for Luiselli's road trip with her family?
(a) Arizona.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) California.
(d) Kansas.

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

11. 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 been urging him to traffic drugs.
(b) Gang members had waited outside of the boy's high school every day.
(c) Gang members had been threatening to kill him.
(d) Gang members had been following the boy home.

12. 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 hard outer shell.
(c) A thin crust.
(d) A crack in the veneer.

13. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?
(a) The Chamizal Convention.
(b) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
(c) The Treaty of Dannemora.
(d) The TRIPS agreement.

14. Luiselli states that the media's final point about the refugee children often comes as a warning that if the children stay, they will take what action?
(a) They will contribute to white flight.
(b) They will reproduce.
(c) They will vote along Democratic lines.
(d) They will vote along Republican lines.

15. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?
(a) Vigilante.
(b) Border Patrol.
(c) Police.
(d) Bribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for someone hired to accompany a migrant to a particular border?

2. What objects are set out for the entertainment of the younger children being interviewed?

3. In what year did Luiselli begin working as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?

4. Luiselli states unequivocally that all child refugees from Mexico and Central America travel with whom?

5. What is La Bestia?

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