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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. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?

2. What is NOT contained in the police report Manu presents to Luiselli during her first-ever interview of a child refugee?

3. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?

4. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?

5. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what question does Part I: Border begin and why?

2. How does Luiselli create a contrast in Part II: Court between two types of emergencies related to the refugee crisis?

3. What is Luiselli's purpose for comparing and contrasting the green card application with the intake questionnaire given to unaccompanied minors?

4. For what reason are child refugees often untruthful or evasive in their answers to the intake questionnaire?

5. 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?

6. What does the police report symbolize?

7. In what way are Mexican children subject to different rules than refugees from other countries seeking asylum in the United States?

8. What irony does Luiselli point out within the questions asking a child refugee, "Are you happy here?" and "Do you feel safe"? (44)

9. What statement does Luiselli make about the notion of accountability for a child refugee's safety?

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

How does Valeria Luiselli go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance her arguments?

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

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?

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