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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. Luiselli states that for her family's first three years living in the United States, they had been termed as what by immigration law?
2. What type of transportation do Luiselli and her niece utilize to get home from their first day conducting interviews, causing the author to think of the mystical quality of the boy's police report?
3. What part of Luiselli's first-day plan goes awry due to the volume of refugee children she receives in the office?
4. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?
5. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reason do many family members of child refugees refrain from presenting themselves in court in order to support the child's plea for immigration relief?
2. What skill does Luiselli present as the most important one when she interviews child refugees in court?
3. For what reason do child refugees attempt to be "formally detained by Border Patrol officers" (18) once they reach the border between the United States and Mexico?
4. What does the police report symbolize?
5. Why do the answers to one particular question on the intake questionnaire cause Luiselli to feel ashamed?
6. What types of questions are asked on the green card application, according to Luiselli?
7. La Bestia's routes begin in which two towns?
8. For what reason are child refugees often untruthful or evasive in their answers to the intake questionnaire?
9. How does Luiselli employ symbolism within the depiction of blank spaces on the questionnaire she gives to undocumented children?
10. What themes does the Introduction name within Luiselli's essay?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the role of the author's niece within the essay. How does the author use the role of her niece to highlight the themes within the overall narrative?
Essay Topic 2
What is the symbolism and purpose of the three photographs included subsequent to the essay's coda?
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding the shift in worldview that needs to occur within the United States government with regard to the refugee crisis?
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