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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 year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?

2. A person with what job meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on Luiselli's first day of work at the New York immigration court?

3. Which president of the United States was involved in enacting the Indian Removal Act?

4. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?

5. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of questions are asked on the green card application, according to Luiselli?

2. How does Luiselli employ symbolism within the depiction of blank spaces on the questionnaire she gives to undocumented children?

3. What themes does the Introduction name within Luiselli's essay?

4. Which three states are the states with "the highest number of children released to sponsors" (49) since the declaration of the refugee crisis?

5. What does the police report symbolize?

6. What does Luiselli mean when she states that Manu's police report acted as "a road map of a migration"? (43)

7. What skill does Luiselli present as the most important one when she interviews child refugees in court?

8. Why do the answers to one particular question on the intake questionnaire cause Luiselli to feel ashamed?

9. 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?

10. Discuss an instance when Luiselli uses a simile to highlight the lack of agency afforded to the relatives of child refugees.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the coda included at the end of Valeria Luiselli’s essay.

Essay Topic 2

Examine how Valeria Luiselli’s essay invites readers to learn particular lessons from her own experiences and to apply those lessons to their own lives. How does she accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?

Essay Topic 3

What is the symbolism and purpose of the three photographs included subsequent to the essay's coda?

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