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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. Luiselli describes how all immigrants view the cruelty of the United States' border as what type of object?
(a) A crack in the veneer.
(b) A hard outer shell.
(c) A fly in the ointment.
(d) A thin crust.

2. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?
(a) The Treaty of Dannemora.
(b) The TRIPS agreement.
(c) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
(d) The Chamizal Convention.

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

4. 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) Social worker.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Doctor.

5. According to Luiselli, what is most often the answer given when child refugees are asked their reason for coming to the United States?
(a) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(b) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.
(c) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.
(d) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?

2. What is NOT contained in the police report Manu presents to Luiselli during her first-ever interview of a child refugee?

3. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?

4. In what city was the protest against the arrival of undocumented immigrants held in 2014, then becoming the object of the author's discussion?

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)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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