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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 does the term catracho mean?

2. The organization S.T.R.O.N.G. is a nonprofit that focuses on teenagers in what location who are vulnerable to falling prey to gangs?

3. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?

4. Luiselli sarcastically remarks that if an immigrant gets really comfortable in the United States, he or she may even begin to celebrate whom?

5. Luiselli asserts that a state compliance review ruled the practice of schools asking for immigration paperwork as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance in Part III: Home when Luiselli uses a simile to indicate powerlessness.

2. What were three things Alina reported being told when a school denied entry to Manu during her search?

3. How does Luiselli use the motif of sound to make a particular point within Part III: Home?

4. How does the theme of sacrifice arise within the final passages of Part IV: Community?

5. What is the symbolism of Luiselli's daughter's question regarding the fates of the child refugees?

6. In what way did Luiselli make the most of her ability to facilitate conversation within her "first semester of teaching at Hofstra University"? (91)

7. What element does Luiselli identify as the factor that "fundamentally fuels drug trafficking"(85) in North America?

8. For what reason was Manu forced to stop attending his school in Long Beach, California?

9. What do Luiselli's students mean when they say, "We don't want to be voluntourists in our own town anymore"? (93)

10. In which states have the highest numbers of children been released to sponsors since the declaration of the refugee crisis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author use sensory details in order to paint a vivid portrait of anecdotes she includes within her essay? Discuss at least two scenes that include use of sensory details and pull quotes from these scenes to support your claim.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that discusses the author's purpose for choosing to depict the juxtaposition among Mexico, the United States, and Central America within the essay.

Essay Topic 3

How is the theme of hypocrisy depicted within the narrative of Valeria Luiselli’s essay?

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