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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 does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?
(a) She tells her daughter that she will never know how it ends.
(b) She tells her daughter that she does not know how it ends yet.
(c) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.
(d) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.

2. Luiselli states, "It was clear that our only role in the court was to serve as a fragile and slippery" (67) what between the refugee children and the United States court system?
(a) Rope.
(b) Ladder.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Hand clasp.

3. What moniker does the class decide to refer to itself as during a class meeting?
(a) A refugee crisis emergency squad.
(b) A Spanish conversation class.
(c) A migration think tank.
(d) A humanitarian force to be reckoned with.

4. 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) Massachusetts.
(c) Florida.
(d) New York.

5. When the Luiselli's students present their plan outlining the rest of the semester, how do they want to spend the remaining class time?
(a) Cleaning up the neighborhood.
(b) Administering care to refugee children.
(c) Writing to the Legislature.
(d) Creating a political student organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Manu's family members does he say had always been the one to send money?

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

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

4. One day while Luiselli and her niece are walking to the train station, Luiselli's niece that she has decided to major in what course of study?

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 uncertainty arise at the end of Part III: Home?

2. What kinds of professionals did Luiselli bring in to speak to her Advanced Conversation class?

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

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

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

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

7. Why are child refugees not entitled to "the free legal counsel that American law guarantees" (67) to so many?

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

9. 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?

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

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