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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?
(a) 0.
(b) 32.
(c) 28.
(d) 212.

2. What does Manu say about why he stopped residing with the person with whom he had lived the previous year?
(a) His aunt had moved away.
(b) His father had gone missing.
(c) His grandmother had died.
(d) His mother had died.

3. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?
(a) Barrio 18.
(b) MS-13.
(c) The Bloods.
(d) The Grape Street Crips.

4. The organization called TIIA has an acronym that plays on the Spanish word for what English term?
(a) Sister.
(b) Aunt.
(c) Mother.
(d) Brother.

5. One day while Luiselli and her niece are walking to the train station, Luiselli's niece that she has decided to major in what course of study?
(a) Social work.
(b) Law.
(c) Education.
(d) Medicine.

6. At the end of Part Four, Luiselli quotes a little girl stating her reason for coming to the United States. What does the little girl say was her reason for coming?
(a) Because she wanted to find her mother.
(b) Because she wanted to survive.
(c) Because she wanted to make her parents proud.
(d) Because she wanted to arrive.

7. With whom had the mother of the two Guatemalan girls left the girls when migrating to the United States?
(a) Their aunt.
(b) Their grandmother.
(c) Their stepfather.
(d) Their cousin.

8. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) She says that she has never attended school.
(d) 13.

9. What kind of court must make a ruling before a child immigrant can even request Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status in the immigration court?
(a) Immigration court.
(b) Civil court.
(c) Criminal court.
(d) Family court.

10. Luiselli states that by November 2015, what event had still not happened?
(a) Legislation to protect child refugees had not been passed.
(b) She still had not received her work permit.
(c) President Trump had not been elected.
(d) She still had not received her green card.

11. The T visa is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.
(b) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(c) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(d) Victims of human trafficking.

12. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?
(a) 13.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

13. Luiselli asserts that a state compliance review ruled the practice of schools asking for immigration paperwork as what?
(a) Unconstitutional.
(b) Improper.
(c) An act of hate crime.
(d) Illegal.

14. What is the title of Part Four of Valeria Luiselli's essay Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) Court.
(b) Community.
(c) Coda.
(d) Family.

15. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?
(a) Apathetic people.
(b) Idealists.
(c) Bureaucracy.
(d) Holes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luiselli say is always the children's reaction when they hear the words ganga or pandillero?

2. What is the ultimate result of Manu's encounter with the gang who waits outside of his school one day?

3. Luiselli asserts that the main element needed to help the children involved in the refugee crisis since 2014 is what?

4. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?

5. What point of view does Luiselli say she utilizes when recording the children's answers to her interview questions?

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