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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 part of Luiselli's first-day plan goes awry due to the volume of refugee children she receives in the office?
(a) The author had been instructed to shadow a lawyer for a whole day before interviewing children on her own.
(b) The author had been instructed to watch a video about the process before interviewing children on her own.
(c) The author had been instructed to shadow a lawyer for a whole week before interviewing children on her own.
(d) The author had been instructed to watch from behind a two-way mirror before interviewing children on her own.

2. Luiselli states that for her family's first three years living in the United States, they had been termed as what by immigration law?
(a) Pending aliens.
(b) Nonresident aliens.
(c) Removable aliens.
(d) Resident aliens.

3. 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?
(a) They will contribute to white flight.
(b) They will vote along Democratic lines.
(c) They will reproduce.
(d) They will vote along Republican lines.

4. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?
(a) Arabic.
(b) Russian.
(c) English.
(d) Spanish.

5. Whose point of view does Luiselli claim is always ignored within the struggle to understand the refugee crisis?
(a) The parents of the child refugees.
(b) The Republicans.
(c) The Democrats.
(d) The child refugees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?

2. What is La Bestia?

3. During what season does Luiselli set out on a road trip with her family?

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

5. Luiselli asserts that until what action is taken, "solutions to the [refugee] crisis will be impossible" (46)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What statement does Luiselli make about the notion of accountability for a child refugee's safety?

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

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

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

10. Why do the answers to one particular question on the intake questionnaire cause Luiselli to feel ashamed?

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