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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 make her parents proud.
(c) Because she wanted to find her mother.
(d) Because she wanted to arrive.

2. 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?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Social work.
(d) Education.

3. Luiselli states that by November 2015, what event had still not happened?
(a) She still had not received her work permit.
(b) She still had not received her green card.
(c) Legislation to protect child refugees had not been passed.
(d) President Trump had not been elected.

4. The Guatemalan girls in Luiselli's depiction of their interview are what ages?
(a) 12 and 15.
(b) 5 and 7.
(c) 2 and 3.
(d) 9 and 13.

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

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

7. Asylum 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) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(c) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.
(d) Victims of human trafficking.

8. Whom does Luiselli assert knows the answer to the question inquiring why people migrate from their home countries to the United States?
(a) No one.
(b) Citizens of the United States.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) The United States government.

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

10. What point of view does Luiselli say she utilizes when recording the children's answers to her interview questions?
(a) First and second.
(b) Omniscient third.
(c) Second and third.
(d) First and third.

11. 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 woman who sewed the first American flag.
(b) The pilgrims who removed the alien Indians.
(c) The actions of Confederate soldiers in the Civil War.
(d) The president who instituted slavery.

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

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

14. By whom does Manu say he had been raised until a year ago?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His aunt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?

2. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?

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

4. 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?

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?

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