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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 is the title of Part Four of Valeria Luiselli's essay Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) Coda.
(b) Community.
(c) Court.
(d) Family.

2. The organization called TIIA has an acronym that plays on the Spanish word for what English term?
(a) Brother.
(b) Aunt.
(c) Sister.
(d) Mother.

3. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Florida.
(c) New York.
(d) Massachusetts.

4. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?
(a) 212.
(b) 0.
(c) 28.
(d) 32.

5. What does Manu say about why he stopped residing with the person with whom he had lived the previous year?
(a) His father had gone missing.
(b) His grandmother had died.
(c) His aunt had moved away.
(d) His mother had died.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?

2. Who else had lived with Manu prior to a year ago, besides his guardian?

3. Luiselli states that by November 2015, what event had still not happened?

4. What words does Luiselli say migrants learn when they are on their way to the United States?

5. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the theme of sacrifice arise within the final passages of Part IV: Community?

2. What is the United States's public position on free education for all children within its borders and why is it significant in the context of Luiselli's argument?

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

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

5. How does Luiselli use the motif of sound to make a particular point within Part III: Home?

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

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

10. 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?

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