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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. During what decade did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and the Barrio 18 gangs originate?
(a) The 1990s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1980s.
(d) The 2000s.

2. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?
(a) Translating the children's answers for lawyers.
(b) Recording the children's answers.
(c) Getting coffee for her partner.
(d) Interviewing the children in court.

3. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 1000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 6,600.
(d) 102,000.

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

5. What form of transportation did Luiselli take to the immigration court on the author's first day of work?
(a) Subway.
(b) Taxi.
(c) Segway.
(d) Train.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many South and Central American migrants were found at the site of a mass grave in 2010?

2. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?

3. What is the ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?

4. What is NOT listed by Luiselli as a way that children refugees answer the question about when they had entered the United States?

5. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance when Luiselli uses a simile to highlight the lack of agency afforded to the relatives of child refugees.

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

3. What does the police report symbolize?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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