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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?
(a) Their social workers.
(b) Their relatives.
(c) The police.
(d) ICE officers.

2. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?
(a) Police.
(b) Vigilante.
(c) Border Patrol.
(d) Bribe.

3. Before the immigration crisis was officially declared, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 12 months.

4. What is NOT listed by Luiselli as a way that children refugees answer the question about when they had entered the United States?
(a) They say last year.
(b) They say they do not know.
(c) They say on their birthday.
(d) They say a few months ago.

5. Luiselli notes that every member of the organization that provides resources to child and teenage refugees has what quality?
(a) They are all white.
(b) They are all African-American.
(c) They are all Latino/a.
(d) They are all women.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?

2. What is NOT an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?

3. Where is the planned ultimate destination for Luiselli's road trip with her family?

4. Luiselli states that the media's final point about the refugee children often comes as a warning that if the children stay, they will take what action?

5. What part of Luiselli's first-day plan goes awry due to the volume of refugee children she receives in the office?

Short Essay Questions

1. What skill does Luiselli present as the most important one when she interviews child refugees in court?

2. What irony does Luiselli point out within the questions asking a child refugee, "Are you happy here?" and "Do you feel safe"? (44)

3. Which actions taken by Luiselli and her niece demonstrate the women's dedication to helping victims of the refugee crisis?

4. Which three states are the states with "the highest number of children released to sponsors" (49) since the declaration of the refugee crisis?

5. For what reason do many family members of child refugees refrain from presenting themselves in court in order to support the child's plea for immigration relief?

6. How does Luiselli employ symbolism within the depiction of blank spaces on the questionnaire she gives to undocumented children?

7. For what reason do child refugees attempt to be "formally detained by Border Patrol officers" (18) once they reach the border between the United States and Mexico?

8. How does Luiselli draw a connection between different eras in terms of the word removal?

9. What does Luiselli mean when she states that Manu's police report acted as "a road map of a migration"? (43)

10. What types of questions are asked on the green card application, according to Luiselli?

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