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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Manu's last name?
(a) Lopez.
(b) Dominguez.
(c) Torres.
(d) Laffrado.

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

3. Luiselli states that there are things that an only be understood in what manner?
(a) Instinctually.
(b) With the help of a community.
(c) Intuitively.
(d) Retroactively.

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

5. Which question on the screening questionnaire does Luiselli describe as "the one that often opens Pandora's box" (73)?
(a) Do you feel safe and happy where you are living now?
(b) Did you ever have trouble with gangs or crime in your home country?
(c) Has anyone paid you to transport items over the border?
(d) Why did you come to the United States?

6. How many students were in Luiselli's first class upon being hired at Hofstra University?
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

7. When the Luiselli's students present their plan outlining the rest of the semester, how do they want to spend the remaining class time?
(a) Writing to the Legislature.
(b) Creating a political student organization.
(c) Cleaning up the neighborhood.
(d) Administering care to refugee children.

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

9. What happened to cause Luiselli to have to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Her passport expired.
(b) Her work permit expired.
(c) A lawyer needed her full-time help with a case.
(d) A client filed a lawsuit against her.

10. 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 year.
(c) After two weeks.
(d) After a month.

11. Luiselli states that if the sisters' "answers didn't align with what the law considers reason enough for the right to protection, the only possible ending to their story was going to be" (66) what?
(a) A bleak future.
(b) A deportation order.
(c) A death sentence.
(d) A reunion with family.

12. Luiselli states that "It only takes a group of ten motivated students to begin making" (95) what kind of difference?
(a) Meaningful.
(b) Life-changing.
(c) Small.
(d) Monumental.

13. What right does Luiselli say "United States law guarantees" for all children, "no matter their nationality or immigrant status" (92)?
(a) Access to medical care.
(b) Citizenship.
(c) Free public education.
(d) The right to work.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words does Luiselli say migrants learn when they are on their way to the United States?

2. Whom does Luiselli assert knows the answer to the question inquiring why people migrate from their home countries to the United States?

3. What does the term catracho mean?

4. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?

5. 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?

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