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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?
(a) An alien.
(b) A resident.
(c) Unable to apply for asylum or immigrant status.
(d) Removable.

2. Who else had lived with Manu prior to a year ago, besides his guardian?
(a) His two cousins.
(b) His cousin and brother.
(c) His grandfather and sister.
(d) His uncle and three cousins.

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

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

5. Luiselli's students told her that they wanted to transform one type of capital into another. What type of capital did they want to trade for another?
(a) They wanted to trade political capital for emotional capital.
(b) They wanted to trade material capital for political capital.
(c) They wanted to trade political capital for monetary capital.
(d) They wanted to trade emotional capital for political capital.

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

7. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reporting.
(c) Contacting the child refugees.
(d) Exercising.

8. Luiselli points out the sad irony of the situation when she states that "if the child answers the questionnaire" (61) in what manner, "he or she is more likely to have a case strong enough to increase its chances of being placed with a pro bono attorney" (61)?
(a) Truthfully.
(b) Immediately.
(c) Deceptively.
(d) Correctly.

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

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

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 reunion with family.
(b) A bleak future.
(c) A deportation order.
(d) A death sentence.

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

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

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

15. The acronym TIIA stands for Teenage Immigrant what Association?
(a) Invention.
(b) Integration.
(c) Intervention.
(d) Implementation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?

3. What is Manu's last name?

4. What does Manu say about why he stopped residing with the person with whom he had lived the previous year?

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

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