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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. Whom does Luiselli assert knows the answer to the question inquiring why people migrate from their home countries to the United States?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Citizens of the United States.
(c) The United States government.
(d) No one.

2. What kind of court must make a ruling before a child immigrant can even request Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status in the immigration court?
(a) Immigration court.
(b) Family court.
(c) Civil court.
(d) Criminal court.

3. What does the term catracho mean?
(a) A person from Honduras.
(b) A person from Chile.
(c) A person from Juarez.
(d) A person from Mexico City.

4. What is the title of Part Four of Valeria Luiselli's essay Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) Court.
(b) Coda.
(c) Community.
(d) Family.

5. By whom does Manu say he had been raised until a year ago?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what topic does Nimmi Gowrinathan deliver a lecture when visiting Luiselli's class?

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. How many students were in Luiselli's first class upon being hired at Hofstra University?

4. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?

5. What did Luiselli decide would be the topic of study within the first class she taught at Hofstra University?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. Why are child refugees not entitled to "the free legal counsel that American law guarantees" (67) to so many?

8. 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.

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

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

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