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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What television station collaborated with the Define American organization to produce an hourlong primetime special called White People?
(a) NBC.
(b) MTV.
(c) ABC.
(d) CBS.

2. What is the title of Part 2, Chapter 16?
(a) "Campaign 2008."
(b) "Facing Myself."
(c) "Second Coming Out."
(d) "Thirty."

3. What is the name of the fictional president depicted in An American President?
(a) Richard Smith.
(b) Andrew Shepard.
(c) Randolph Wilson.
(d) James W. Whitmore.

4. How old did the author say his mother would turn this year in Part 3, Chapter 12?
(a) 59.
(b) 66.
(c) 61.
(d) 72.

5. What did the interviewer call the man who brought the author into America in Part 3, Chapter 10?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A cougar.
(c) A coyote.
(d) A camel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part 3, Chapter 10?

2. Approximately how many migrants are there estimated to be around the world, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 18?

3. Where is Carlos Lozada originally from?

4. When was the author released from detention by immigration officials, according to his narrative in Part 3, Chapter 12?

5. Where did the author's uncle Conrad fly in from to attend the author's thirtieth birthday dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe his "emotional borders" in Part 3, Chapter 3 (187)?

2. What does the author say of the cost of enforcing our laws and protecting our borders in Part 3, Chapter 7?

3. What led to the author's arrest and detainment in 2014?

4. What are some of the many things that an "illegal" cannot do, according to the author in Part 3, Chapter 2?

5. What did the lawyers that Vargas spoke to before writing his "coming out" essay advise him to do?

6. When was the author's "coming out" essay published? Where was it published and what reaction did it initially receive?

7. What was "Operation Gatekeeper" and how successful was it?

8. Who was the only person to ask the author a question after his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2013? What was asked?

9. When does the author describe calling ICE in Part 3, Chapter 1? How did they respond?

10. What is Define American and when was it founded?

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