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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luiselli states, "It was clear that our only role in the court was to serve as a fragile and slippery" (67) what between the refugee children and the United States court system?
(a) Hand clasp.
(b) Rope.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Ladder.

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

3. 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) Criminal court.
(c) Family court.
(d) Civil court.

4. What course does Luiselli describe teaching at Hofstra University?
(a) Law and Society.
(b) English.
(c) Advanced Conversation.
(d) Cultural Anthropology.

5. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?
(a) Her 100th.
(b) Her 36th.
(c) Her 13th.
(d) Her 1st.

6. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?
(a) She says that she is albierto.
(b) She says she is a gato.
(c) She says that she is a chilanga.
(d) She says that she is a catracho.

7. The day before the two sisters left Guatemala, their grandmother sewed what number into the collars of their dresses?
(a) Their mother's phone number.
(b) Their grandfather's address.
(c) Their social security numbers.
(d) Their ages.

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) She says that she has never attended school.
(c) 13.
(d) 12.

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

10. What is the ultimate result of Manu's encounter with the gang who waits outside of his school one day?
(a) Manu's friend is shot.
(b) Manu's leg is broken.
(c) Manu shoots a man.
(d) Manu is shot.

11. What did Luiselli decide would be the topic of study within the first class she taught at Hofstra University?
(a) The undocumented minors crisis.
(b) The Gay Rights movement.
(c) The Me Too movement.
(d) The Black Lives Matter movement.

12. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His brother.
(d) A foster family.

13. Luiselli states that to take what action "is the founding myth of" (98) American society?
(a) To leave.
(b) To stay.
(c) To succeed.
(d) To belong.

14. After what length of time working with the Door in the immigration court cases does Luiselli begin to experience "feelings of frustration and defeat"?
(a) After a few months.
(b) After a month.
(c) After a year.
(d) After two weeks.

15. On what topic does Nimmi Gowrinathan deliver a lecture when visiting Luiselli's class?
(a) White privilege.
(b) Classism.
(c) Humanitarian efforts.
(d) Political activism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The words migrants learn on the way to the United States contains the sentiment that to arrive is what?

2. What does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?

3. Luiselli sarcastically remarks that if an immigrant gets really comfortable in the United States, he or she may even begin to celebrate whom?

4. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?

5. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?

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