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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Creating a political student organization.
(c) Cleaning up the neighborhood.
(d) Administering care to refugee children.

2. What is the name of Manu's aunt?
(a) Alina.
(b) Mana.
(c) Maria.
(d) Luisa.

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

4. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?
(a) His brother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) A foster family.

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?
(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.

6. What right does Luiselli say "United States law guarantees" for all children, "no matter their nationality or immigrant status" (92)?
(a) Citizenship.
(b) Access to medical care.
(c) The right to work.
(d) Free public education.

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

8. What course does Luiselli describe teaching at Hofstra University?
(a) Cultural Anthropology.
(b) English.
(c) Advanced Conversation.
(d) Law and Society.

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

10. What is the title of Part Four of Valeria Luiselli's essay Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) Court.
(b) Community.
(c) Coda.
(d) Family.

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

12. To what location does Luiselli compare when describing how an immigrant begins to think of his or her home country after a long time living in the United States?
(a) A bank.
(b) A post office.
(c) A beach.
(d) A backyard.

13. 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.

14. 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) 32.
(b) 28.
(c) 212.
(d) 0.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The T visa is granted by the United States government to whom?

2. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?

3. After what length of time working with the Door in the immigration court cases does Luiselli begin to experience "feelings of frustration and defeat"?

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

5. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?

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