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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. From what country had Manu fled, ending up in the screening room with Luiselli?

3. The words migrants learn on the way to the United States contains the sentiment that to arrive is what?

4. Which of Manu's family members does he say had always been the one to send money?

5. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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?

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

5. What solidified belief does Luiselli carry about the child refugees, based on her experiences screening such children at The Door?

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

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

8. How long after Luiselli's first interview of Manu Lopez did Luiselli see him again and what took place at that meeting?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the author's message regarding the shift in worldview that needs to occur within the United States government with regard to the refugee crisis?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

How does the author employ the use or rejection of fallacy within her argumentative essay and how does the inclusion of fallacy help the author to prove her own points within the essay?

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