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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Luiselli's students insist that what organizations in the area have to offer some kind of sustained relief for the refugee crisis?
(a) Local private universities.
(b) Local charity organizations.
(c) Local public universities.
(d) Local government bodies.

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) Family court.
(b) Immigration court.
(c) Criminal court.
(d) Civil court.

4. Luiselli sarcastically remarks that if an immigrant gets really comfortable in the United States, he or she may even begin to celebrate whom?
(a) The actions of Confederate soldiers in the Civil War.
(b) The president who instituted slavery.
(c) The woman who sewed the first American flag.
(d) The pilgrims who removed the alien Indians.

5. 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) 13.
(b) She says that she has never attended school.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

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

7. Luiselli states that she and her niece "almost always leave immigration court" (68) in what manner?
(a) With reluctance.
(b) In silence.
(c) Only when they are exhausted.
(d) In haste.

8. 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) 28.
(c) 32.
(d) 212.

9. 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 mother had died.
(d) His grandmother had died.

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

11. 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) Coda.
(c) Community.
(d) Family.

12. 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) Deceptively.
(b) Immediately.
(c) Correctly.
(d) Truthfully.

13. 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) Cleaning up the neighborhood.
(b) Writing to the Legislature.
(c) Creating a political student organization.
(d) Administering care to refugee children.

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

15. The words migrants learn as they are on their way to the United States contain the sentiment that to leave is to do what a little?
(a) Break.
(b) Die.
(c) Live.
(d) Melt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that "the main problem with asylum is that if it's granted, the children can never" (59) take what action?

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

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

4. After what length of time working with the Door in the immigration court cases does Luiselli begin to experience "feelings of frustration and defeat"?

5. Luiselli jokes with Manu during their first interview, saying that the two of them are only enemies in what sport?

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