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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. Luiselli states that there are things that an only be understood in what manner?
2. 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?
3. Asylum is granted by the United States government to whom?
4. What does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?
5. Luiselli states that by November 2015, what event had still not happened?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kinds of professionals did Luiselli bring in to speak to her Advanced Conversation class?
2. What is the symbolism of Luiselli's daughter's question regarding the fates of the child refugees?
3. In what way does Luiselli depict speaking about trauma as an effective method of processing it?
4. What were three things Alina reported being told when a school denied entry to Manu during her search?
5. In what way did Luiselli make the most of her ability to facilitate conversation within her "first semester of teaching at Hofstra University"? (91)
6. How does the theme of uncertainty arise at the end of Part III: Home?
7. Discuss an instance in Part III: Home when Luiselli uses a simile to indicate powerlessness.
8. What solidified belief does Luiselli carry about the child refugees, based on her experiences screening such children at The Door?
9. What do Luiselli's students mean when they say, "We don't want to be voluntourists in our own town anymore"? (93)
10. How does the theme of sacrifice arise within the final passages of Part IV: Community?
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
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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