View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Luiselli states that "It only takes a group of ten motivated students to begin making" (95) what kind of difference?
(a) Life-changing.
(b) Monumental.
(c) Meaningful.
(d) Small.

3. What happened to cause Luiselli to have to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) A lawyer needed her full-time help with a case.
(b) Her work permit expired.
(c) Her passport expired.
(d) A client filed a lawsuit against her.

4. 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 president who instituted slavery.
(d) The actions of Confederate soldiers in the Civil War.

5. What does Manu say about why he stopped residing with the person with whom he had lived the previous year?
(a) His mother had died.
(b) His grandmother had died.
(c) His aunt had moved away.
(d) His father had gone missing.

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

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

8. Luiselli states that "the main problem with asylum is that if it's granted, the children can never" (59) take what action?
(a) Recover their belongings without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(b) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(c) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their citizen status in their home countries.
(d) Leave the United States without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.

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) Victims of human trafficking.
(c) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(d) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.

10. 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?
(a) They wanted to trade emotional capital for political capital.
(b) They wanted to trade political capital for emotional capital.
(c) They wanted to trade political capital for monetary capital.
(d) They wanted to trade material capital for political capital.

11. 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.

12. How far into the semester does Luiselli say her first group of students began to speak up?
(a) Three-quarters of the way through the semester.
(b) One week before the end of the semester.
(c) Halfway through the semester.
(d) After the first five minutes.

13. 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 know how it ends yet.
(b) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.
(c) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.
(d) She tells her daughter that she will never know how it ends.

14. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 13.
(d) She says that she has never attended school.

15. 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) Civil court.
(c) Criminal court.
(d) Immigration court.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term catracho mean?

2. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?

3. The words migrants learn as they are on their way to the United States contain the sentiment that to leave is to do what a little?

4. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?

5. Luiselli states that there are things that an only be understood in what manner?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 730 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample