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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. To what location does Luiselli compare when describing how an immigrant begins to think of his or her home country after a long time living in the United States?

2. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?

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

4. How many students were in Luiselli's first class upon being hired at Hofstra University?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Spanish Conversation class led by Luiselli renounces their name, what do they call the class instead and why is their choice significant?

2. How does Luiselli get across the way in which the dangerous trek to the United States is only the beginning of a child refugee's struggles?

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

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

5. Describe Luiselli's employment of imagery in order to get across what it feels like for immigrants once they have been in the United States for a sustained period of time.

6. Discuss the irony Luiselli finds in the determination of a so-called correct answer in the context of immigration court.

7. What sacrifices does Luiselli name as ones immigrants are willing to make in order to stay in the United States?

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

9. Why are child refugees not entitled to "the free legal counsel that American law guarantees" (67) to so many?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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