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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. 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?
(a) A backyard.
(b) A post office.
(c) A bank.
(d) A beach.

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

3. From what country had Manu fled, ending up in the screening room with Luiselli?
(a) Guatemala.
(b) El Salvador.
(c) Honduras.
(d) Mexico.

4. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will unlearn what system?
(a) The moral code.
(b) The public transportation system.
(c) The legal system.
(d) The metric system.

5. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?
(a) Bureaucracy.
(b) Apathetic people.
(c) Idealists.
(d) Holes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The acronym TIIA stands for Teenage Immigrant what Association?

4. The day before the two sisters left Guatemala, their grandmother sewed what number into the collars of their dresses?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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