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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. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?
(a) Why did you come to the United States?
(b) Has anyone hurt you since you have been in the United States?
(c) Have you been threatened by gangs?
(d) When did you enter the United States?

2. What year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2014.
(c) 2011.
(d) 1990.

3. A person with what job meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on Luiselli's first day of work at the New York immigration court?
(a) Interpreter.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Social worker.

4. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?
(a) 54%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 94%.
(d) 64%.

5. Within what state is Luiselli's family when they first hear "about the wave of children arriving, alone and undocumented, at the border" (11)?
(a) New York.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Oklahoma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects are set out for the entertainment of the younger children being interviewed?

2. 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?

3. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?

4. In what year did Luiselli begin working as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?

5. Before the immigration crisis was officially declared, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What themes does the Introduction name within Luiselli's essay?

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

3. For what reason are child refugees often untruthful or evasive in their answers to the intake questionnaire?

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

5. What does the police report symbolize?

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

7. 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?

8. How does Luiselli incorporate the discussion of race into the discussion of the refugee crisis?

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

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

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