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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is NOT listed by Luiselli as a way that children refugees answer the question about when they had entered the United States?
2. Luiselli asserts that until what action is taken, "solutions to the [refugee] crisis will be impossible" (46)?
3. The Barrio 18 members had grown up in the gang culture of what city?
4. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?
5. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do the answers to one particular question on the intake questionnaire cause Luiselli to feel ashamed?
2. What does the police report symbolize?
3. What types of questions are asked on the green card application, according to Luiselli?
4. According to Luiselli, what do refugee children try to do if and when they do reach the United States and why?
5. In what location did the gangs MS-13 and the Barrio 18 originate?
6. How does Luiselli draw a connection between different eras in terms of the word removal?
7. For what reason are child refugees often untruthful or evasive in their answers to the intake questionnaire?
8. Discuss an instance when Luiselli uses a simile to highlight the lack of agency afforded to the relatives of child refugees.
9. What themes does the Introduction name within Luiselli's essay?
10. What does Luiselli mean when she states that Manu's police report acted as "a road map of a migration"? (43)
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the author's message regarding the difference between awareness and activism and how does she get this message across to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
How does the author's use of the first and second person point of view serve her purposes over the course of the essay? Discuss how Valeria Luiselli’s choice of point of view helps to advance her treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
What ultimate message is Valeria Luiselli’s essay sending about the mythical qualities of the United States?
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