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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 asserts that until what action is taken, "solutions to the [refugee] crisis will be impossible" (46)?
(a) Until every involved financial institution acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(b) Until every involved charity organization acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(c) Until every involved polluter acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(d) Until every involved government acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.

2. What is La Bestia?
(a) A river system.
(b) A train.
(c) A bus.
(d) A gondola.

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

4. What objects are set out for the entertainment of the younger children being interviewed?
(a) Video games.
(b) Board games.
(c) Books.
(d) Crayons and paper.

5. During what season does Luiselli set out on a road trip with her family?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?

2. With whom does Luiselli live?

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

4. After the introduction of the priority juvenile docket, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?

5. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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