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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. 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?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Education.
(d) Social work.

2. In what month of 2015 does Luiselli report beginning the essay entitled Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) June.
(b) November.
(c) March.
(d) January.

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

4. What type of person is NOT listed among the people Luiselli brought to speak to her first group of students at Hofstra University?
(a) Social workers.
(b) Activists.
(c) Political scientists.
(d) Professors.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Luiselli states that "It only takes a group of ten motivated students to begin making" (95) what kind of difference?

4. Luiselli's students told her that they wanted to transform one type of capital into another. What type of capital did they want to trade for another?

5. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will unlearn what system?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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