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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 type of transportation do Luiselli and her niece utilize to get home from their first day conducting interviews, causing the author to think of the mystical quality of the boy's police report?
(a) Trolley.
(b) Taxi.
(c) Train.
(d) Subway.

2. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1886.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1872.

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

4. How old was Luiselli's niece at the time she accompanied her aunt to Luiselli's first day as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?
(a) 19.
(b) 32.
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

5. The Barrio 18 members had grown up in the gang culture of what city?
(a) Tijuana.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Quito.
(d) Mexico City.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?

3. Which United States administration created the priority juvenile docket?

4. In what borough of New York City is the organization located that provides immigrant children and teenagers with valuable resources?

5. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What irony does Luiselli point out within the questions asking a child refugee, "Are you happy here?" and "Do you feel safe"? (44)

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Luiselli create a contrast in Part II: Court between two types of emergencies related to the refugee crisis?

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

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