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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. At the end of Part Four, Luiselli quotes a little girl stating her reason for coming to the United States. What does the little girl say was her reason for coming?
(a) Because she wanted to survive.
(b) Because she wanted to make her parents proud.
(c) Because she wanted to find her mother.
(d) Because she wanted to arrive.

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

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

4. Asylum is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Victims of human trafficking.
(b) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(c) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.
(d) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.

5. What right does Luiselli say "United States law guarantees" for all children, "no matter their nationality or immigrant status" (92)?
(a) The right to work.
(b) Access to medical care.
(c) Free public education.
(d) Citizenship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that she and her niece "almost always leave immigration court" (68) in what manner?

2. Which question on the screening questionnaire does Luiselli describe as "the one that often opens Pandora's box" (73)?

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

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. With whom had the mother of the two Guatemalan girls left the girls when migrating to the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. How does the theme of uncertainty arise at the end of Part III: Home?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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