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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Social worker.
(d) Interpreter.

3. What is La Bestia?
(a) A bus.
(b) A train.
(c) A river system.
(d) A gondola.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?
(a) 64%.
(b) 94%.
(c) 34%.
(d) 54%.

10. Luiselli describes Manu's police report as ending with what kind of sentiment by the police?
(a) A vague promise to conduct a few interviews.
(b) A vague promise to prosecute.
(c) A vague promise to investigate.
(d) A vague promise to set up a sting operation.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?

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. 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?

4. Luiselli asserts that until what action is taken, "solutions to the [refugee] crisis will be impossible" (46)?

5. When Luiselli describes the media's treatment of the child refugees, what metaphor does she use to represent how the media treats the children?

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