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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. 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 they do not know.
(b) They say a few months ago.
(c) They say on their birthday.
(d) They say last year.

2. In what borough of New York City is the organization located that provides immigrant children and teenagers with valuable resources?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Manhattan.

3. To what object does Luiselli compare the boy's police report in an extended metaphor about its symbolism?
(a) A road map.
(b) A pencil sharpener.
(c) A paint set.
(d) A xylophone.

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

5. How many South and Central American migrants were found at the site of a mass grave in 2010?
(a) 63.
(b) 92.
(c) 45.
(d) 72.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month of 2014 was the refugee crisis discussed by Luiselli officially declared?

2. What form of transportation did Luiselli take to the immigration court on the author's first day of work?

3. Luiselli describes Manu's police report as ending with what kind of sentiment by the police?

4. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?

5. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what question does Part I: Border begin and why?

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

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

4. In what way are Mexican children subject to different rules than refugees from other countries seeking asylum in the United States?

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 draw a connection between different eras in terms of the word removal?

7. According to Luiselli, what do refugee children try to do if and when they do reach the United States and why?

8. What is Luiselli's purpose for comparing and contrasting the green card application with the intake questionnaire given to unaccompanied minors?

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

10. La Bestia's routes begin in which two towns?

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