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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 the main element needed to help the children involved in the refugee crisis since 2014 is what?
(a) The privatization of the coyote role.
(b) Methods of communication between children and parents.
(c) Doctors who will work for limited pay.
(d) Lawyers who will work pro bono.

2. Which of Manu's family members does he say had always been the one to send money?
(a) His father.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

3. Luiselli points out the sad irony of the situation when she states that "if the child answers the questionnaire" (61) in what manner, "he or she is more likely to have a case strong enough to increase its chances of being placed with a pro bono attorney" (61)?
(a) Correctly.
(b) Truthfully.
(c) Deceptively.
(d) Immediately.

4. What is the ultimate result of Manu's encounter with the gang who waits outside of his school one day?
(a) Manu's friend is shot.
(b) Manu shoots a man.
(c) Manu's leg is broken.
(d) Manu is shot.

5. What is the name of Manu's aunt?
(a) Mana.
(b) Luisa.
(c) Alina.
(d) Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Guatemalan girls in Luiselli's depiction of their interview are what ages?

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

3. What type of person is NOT listed among the people Luiselli brought to speak to her first group of students at Hofstra University?

4. What kind of court must make a ruling before a child immigrant can even request Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status in the immigration court?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What were three things Alina reported being told when a school denied entry to Manu during her search?

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

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