View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luiselli asserts that a state compliance review ruled the practice of schools asking for immigration paperwork as what?
(a) Improper.
(b) Unconstitutional.
(c) Illegal.
(d) An act of hate crime.

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

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

4. 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) Ladder.
(b) Hand clasp.
(c) Rope.
(d) Bridge.

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

6. Luiselli states that there are things that an only be understood in what manner?
(a) With the help of a community.
(b) Retroactively.
(c) Instinctually.
(d) Intuitively.

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

8. 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 mother had died.
(c) His grandmother had died.
(d) His father had gone missing.

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

10. 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.

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

12. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?
(a) Clark.
(b) Nassau.
(c) King.
(d) Broward.

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

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

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) Social workers.
(b) Activists.
(c) Political scientists.
(d) Professors.

Short Answer Questions

1. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?

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

3. Asylum is granted by the United States government to whom?

4. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?

5. 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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 651 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample