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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?
(a) Florida.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New York.
(d) Massachusetts.

6. 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.

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

8. The organization S.T.R.O.N.G. is a nonprofit that focuses on teenagers in what location who are vulnerable to falling prey to gangs?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) The east side of Chicago.

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

10. From what country had Manu fled, ending up in the screening room with Luiselli?
(a) Honduras.
(b) El Salvador.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Guatemala.

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

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

13. 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) Bridge.
(c) Ladder.
(d) Rope.

14. Luiselli asserts that the main element needed to help the children involved in the refugee crisis since 2014 is what?
(a) Methods of communication between children and parents.
(b) Doctors who will work for limited pay.
(c) The privatization of the coyote role.
(d) Lawyers who will work pro bono.

15. What does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?
(a) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.
(b) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.
(c) She tells her daughter that she does not know how it ends yet.
(d) She tells her daughter that she will never know how it ends.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The organization called TIIA has an acronym that plays on the Spanish word for what English term?

5. What is the title of Part Four of Valeria Luiselli's essay Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?

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