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

2. 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) Immigrants.
(c) Citizens of the United States.
(d) The United States government.

3. 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?
(a) The east side of Chicago.
(b) Long Island.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Manhattan.

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

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

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

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

8. 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 pilgrims who removed the alien Indians.
(c) The woman who sewed the first American flag.
(d) The president who instituted slavery.

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

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

11. On what topic does Nimmi Gowrinathan deliver a lecture when visiting Luiselli's class?
(a) Humanitarian efforts.
(b) Classism.
(c) White privilege.
(d) Political activism.

12. What does Luiselli say is always the children's reaction when they hear the words ganga or pandillero?
(a) They are excited by the mention of the words.
(b) They are terrified by the mention of the words.
(c) They are ashamed at the mention of the words.
(d) They are saddened by the mention of the words.

13. The family member Manu describes as the one who had always been the one sending money had lived in what location?
(a) Honduras.
(b) Mexico.
(c) New York City.
(d) New Jersey.

14. The organization called TIIA has an acronym that plays on the Spanish word for what English term?
(a) Sister.
(b) Mother.
(c) Aunt.
(d) Brother.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the ultimate result of Manu's encounter with the gang who waits outside of his school one day?

3. What is the name of Manu's aunt?

4. By whom does Manu say he had been raised until a year ago?

5. What right does Luiselli say "United States law guarantees" for all children, "no matter their nationality or immigrant status" (92)?

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