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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. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?
2. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
3. In what city does Luiselli's family learn that many refugee children from Honduras are being deported back to their home country after just having arrived in the United States?
4. When Luiselli describes the media's treatment of the child refugees, what metaphor does she use to represent how the media treats the children?
5. Luiselli describes Manu's police report as ending with what kind of sentiment by the police?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is Luiselli's purpose for comparing and contrasting the green card application with the intake questionnaire given to unaccompanied minors?
3. In what way are Mexican children subject to different rules than refugees from other countries seeking asylum in the United States?
4. Discuss an instance when Luiselli uses a simile to highlight the lack of agency afforded to the relatives of child refugees.
5. What skill does Luiselli present as the most important one when she interviews child refugees in court?
6. How does Luiselli employ symbolism within the depiction of blank spaces on the questionnaire she gives to undocumented children?
7. For what reason are child refugees often untruthful or evasive in their answers to the intake questionnaire?
8. What does Luiselli mean when she states that Manu's police report acted as "a road map of a migration"? (43)
9. According to Luiselli, what do refugee children try to do if and when they do reach the United States and why?
10. With what question does Part I: Border begin and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the theme of hypocrisy depicted within the narrative of Valeria Luiselli’s essay?
Essay Topic 2
How does Valeria Luiselli go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance her arguments?
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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