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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 a state compliance review ruled the practice of schools asking for immigration paperwork as what?
(a) Unconstitutional.
(b) Illegal.
(c) Improper.
(d) An act of hate crime.

2. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?
(a) Barrio 18.
(b) MS-13.
(c) The Bloods.
(d) The Grape Street Crips.

3. How far into the semester does Luiselli say her first group of students began to speak up?
(a) Three-quarters of the way through the semester.
(b) Halfway through the semester.
(c) After the first five minutes.
(d) One week before the end of the semester.

4. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?
(a) She says that she has never attended school.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

5. The organization S.T.R.O.N.G. is a nonprofit that focuses on teenagers in what location who are vulnerable to falling prey to gangs?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) The east side of Chicago.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Long Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?

2. What course does Luiselli describe teaching at Hofstra University?

3. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?

4. With whom had the mother of the two Guatemalan girls left the girls when migrating to the United States?

5. What does Manu say about why he stopped residing with the person with whom he had lived the previous year?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way did Luiselli make the most of her ability to facilitate conversation within her "first semester of teaching at Hofstra University"? (91)

2. Describe Luiselli's employment of imagery in order to get across what it feels like for immigrants once they have been in the United States for a sustained period of time.

3. What element does Luiselli identify as the factor that "fundamentally fuels drug trafficking"(85) in North America?

4. For what reason was Manu forced to stop attending his school in Long Beach, California?

5. Discuss an instance in Part III: Home when Luiselli uses a simile to indicate powerlessness.

6. How long after Luiselli's first interview of Manu Lopez did Luiselli see him again and what took place at that meeting?

7. What does Luiselli mean when she describes herself as a "bridge between the children and the court system"? (67)

8. When the Spanish Conversation class led by Luiselli renounces their name, what do they call the class instead and why is their choice significant?

9. What do Luiselli's students mean when they say, "We don't want to be voluntourists in our own town anymore"? (93)

10. Discuss the irony Luiselli finds in the determination of a so-called correct answer in the context of immigration court.

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