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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. The T visa is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(b) Victims of human trafficking.
(c) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(d) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.

2. 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) 12.
(b) She says that she has never attended school.
(c) 13.
(d) 5.

3. Asylum is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.
(b) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(c) Victims of human trafficking.
(d) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.

4. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?
(a) A foster family.
(b) His brother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His grandmother.

5. What right does Luiselli say "United States law guarantees" for all children, "no matter their nationality or immigrant status" (92)?
(a) Access to medical care.
(b) Free public education.
(c) The right to work.
(d) Citizenship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part Four of Valeria Luiselli's essay Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?

2. On what topic does Nimmi Gowrinathan deliver a lecture when visiting Luiselli's class?

3. The organization called TIIA has an acronym that plays on the Spanish word for what English term?

4. Luiselli jokes with Manu during their first interview, saying that the two of them are only enemies in what sport?

5. The words migrants learn on the way to the United States contains the sentiment that to arrive is what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Luiselli get across the way in which the dangerous trek to the United States is only the beginning of a child refugee's struggles?

4. 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.

5. In which states have the highest numbers of children been released to sponsors since the declaration of the refugee crisis?

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

7. What sacrifices does Luiselli name as ones immigrants are willing to make in order to stay in the United States?

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

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

10. What solidified belief does Luiselli carry about the child refugees, based on her experiences screening such children at The Door?

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