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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 did President George W. Bush shutter when he created the Department of Homeland Security?

2. What does "miedo" translate to in English?

3. Where was the Indian restaurant that the author organized his thirtieth birthday dinner at?

4. Approximately how many people were deported by ICE in 2009?

5. How many times does the author say he has been a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher in Part 2, Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where was the author detained during his arrest in 2014?

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

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

9. How does the author compare his "second coming out" with his first "coming out"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the policies of U.S. Immigration during the Obama presidency. How did Obama's administration differ with those before it in terms of deportations and legal immigration? What policies focused on refugees? Does the author have a positive or negative opinion of Obama's immigration policies? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of family in Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. What does family mean to the author? How does Filipino culture generally view family as an element of life? What different "families" did the author develop over time?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of homelessness in Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. What does the author mean in the Prologue when he says that this book is about homelessness? In what ways did this sense of homelessness shape the author? How did it contribute to his feelings of isolation?

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