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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term catracho mean?
(a) A person from Honduras.
(b) A person from Chile.
(c) A person from Mexico City.
(d) A person from Juarez.

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

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

4. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?
(a) MS-13.
(b) Barrio 18.
(c) The Grape Street Crips.
(d) The Bloods.

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

6. 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 arrive.
(c) To belong.
(d) To find home.

7. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?
(a) 28.
(b) 32.
(c) 0.
(d) 212.

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

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

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

11. With whom had the mother of the two Guatemalan girls left the girls when migrating to the United States?
(a) Their cousin.
(b) Their grandmother.
(c) Their stepfather.
(d) Their aunt.

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

13. 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.

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

15. 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) Immediately.
(b) Truthfully.
(c) Correctly.
(d) Deceptively.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which question on the screening questionnaire does Luiselli describe as "the one that often opens Pandora's box" (73)?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What did Luiselli decide would be the topic of study within the first class she taught at Hofstra University?

5. What course does Luiselli describe teaching at Hofstra University?

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