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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. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?
(a) The Bloods.
(b) MS-13.
(c) Barrio 18.
(d) The Grape Street Crips.

2. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?
(a) She says that she is a catracho.
(b) She says that she is a chilanga.
(c) She says that she is albierto.
(d) She says she is a gato.

3. When the Luiselli's students present their plan outlining the rest of the semester, how do they want to spend the remaining class time?
(a) Writing to the Legislature.
(b) Administering care to refugee children.
(c) Cleaning up the neighborhood.
(d) Creating a political student organization.

4. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?
(a) She says that she has never attended school.
(b) 13.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

5. Luiselli's students insist that what organizations in the area have to offer some kind of sustained relief for the refugee crisis?
(a) Local government bodies.
(b) Local charity organizations.
(c) Local private universities.
(d) Local public universities.

Short Answer Questions

1. The T visa is granted by the United States government to whom?

2. What is Manu's last name?

3. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?

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. From what country had Manu fled, ending up in the screening room with Luiselli?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. 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. How does the theme of sacrifice arise within the final passages of Part IV: Community?

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

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

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

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