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

2. The Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang started as a small coalition of immigrants from what country?
(a) El Salvador.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Guatemala.
(d) Mexico.

3. There is a saying about La Bestia that states, "Go in alive, come out a" (18) what?
(a) A vampire.
(b) A skeleton.
(c) A werewolf.
(d) A mummy.

4. 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) Kansas.
(b) New York.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Oklahoma.

5. Which president of the United States was involved in enacting the Indian Removal Act?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Luiselli states unequivocally that all child refugees from Mexico and Central America travel with whom?

5. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?

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. In what location did the gangs MS-13 and the Barrio 18 originate?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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