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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. 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?
(a) Because she wanted to survive.
(b) Because she wanted to find her mother.
(c) Because she wanted to arrive.
(d) Because she wanted to make her parents proud.

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

4. 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) Illegal.
(d) Unconstitutional.

5. Luiselli jokes with Manu during their first interview, saying that the two of them are only enemies in what sport?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Lacrosse.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Soccer.

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

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

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

9. The words migrants learn on the way to the United States contains the sentiment that to arrive is what?
(a) Never to arrive.
(b) To belong.
(c) To find home.
(d) To arrive.

10. 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) New York.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Massachusetts.

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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) Deceptively.
(c) Correctly.
(d) Immediately.

15. What type of person is NOT listed among the people Luiselli brought to speak to her first group of students at Hofstra University?
(a) Activists.
(b) Professors.
(c) Social workers.
(d) Political scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. Luiselli states that by November 2015, what event had still not happened?

5. To what location does Luiselli compare when describing how an immigrant begins to think of his or her home country after a long time living in the United States?

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