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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 acronym TIIA stands for Teenage Immigrant what Association?
(a) Implementation.
(b) Invention.
(c) Intervention.
(d) Integration.

2. What does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?
(a) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.
(b) She tells her daughter that she does not know how it ends yet.
(c) She tells her daughter that she will never know how it ends.
(d) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.

3. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Exercising.
(b) Contacting the child refugees.
(c) Reporting.
(d) Writing.

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) Activists.
(b) Professors.
(c) Social workers.
(d) Political scientists.

5. What does Luiselli say is always the children's reaction when they hear the words ganga or pandillero?
(a) They are saddened by the mention of the words.
(b) They are ashamed at the mention of the words.
(c) They are excited by the mention of the words.
(d) They are terrified by the mention of the words.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?

2. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?

3. 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?

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

5. Luiselli sarcastically remarks that if an immigrant gets really comfortable in the United States, he or she may even begin to celebrate whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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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