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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of Manu's family members does he say had always been the one to send money?
(a) His sister.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

3. What moniker does the class decide to refer to itself as during a class meeting?
(a) A migration think tank.
(b) A Spanish conversation class.
(c) A refugee crisis emergency squad.
(d) A humanitarian force to be reckoned with.

4. In what month of 2015 does Luiselli report beginning the essay entitled Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) March.
(b) January.
(c) November.
(d) June.

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

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

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

8. 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 year.
(b) After a month.
(c) After a few months.
(d) After two weeks.

9. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will unlearn what system?
(a) The legal system.
(b) The moral code.
(c) The metric system.
(d) The public transportation system.

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. 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) Civil court.
(d) Family court.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many students were in Luiselli's first class upon being hired at Hofstra University?

3. 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?

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

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?

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