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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 Guatemalan girls in Luiselli's depiction of their interview are what ages?
(a) 12 and 15.
(b) 5 and 7.
(c) 2 and 3.
(d) 9 and 13.

2. The words migrants learn as they are on their way to the United States contain the sentiment that to leave is to do what a little?
(a) Break.
(b) Live.
(c) Die.
(d) Melt.

3. 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) Writing to the Legislature.
(b) Administering care to refugee children.
(c) Creating a political student organization.
(d) Cleaning up the neighborhood.

4. The day before the two sisters left Guatemala, their grandmother sewed what number into the collars of their dresses?
(a) Their mother's phone number.
(b) Their social security numbers.
(c) Their ages.
(d) Their grandfather's address.

5. 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) Ladder.
(b) Rope.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Hand clasp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?

2. What is the ultimate result of Manu's encounter with the gang who waits outside of his school one day?

3. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?

4. To what location does Luiselli compare when describing how an immigrant begins to think of his or her home country after a long time living in the United States?

5. By whom does Manu say he had been raised until a year ago?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way does Luiselli depict speaking about trauma as an effective method of processing it?

3. What is the symbolism of Luiselli's daughter's question regarding the fates of the child refugees?

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

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

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

7. Describe an instance when Luiselli uses a simile to describe the border between the United States and Mexico.

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

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

10. 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.

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