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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Community .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luiselli states that to take what action "is the founding myth of" (98) American society?
(a) To belong.
(b) To stay.
(c) To leave.
(d) To succeed.

2. What does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?
(a) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.
(b) She tells her daughter that she will never know how it ends.
(c) She tells her daughter that she does not know how it ends yet.
(d) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.

3. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?
(a) MS-13.
(b) The Bloods.
(c) Barrio 18.
(d) The Grape Street Crips.

4. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?
(a) A brick.
(b) A light bulb.
(c) Scaffolding.
(d) A blanket.

5. The three countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras make up the area of the world called what?
(a) The Southern Triangle.
(b) The Western Triangle.
(c) The Northern Triangle.
(d) The Eastern Triangle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that much later, she had come to understand that what she and her niece "were really doing that morning [on the first day of their new jobs] was providing" what "for organizations dealing with an emergency" (38)?

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. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?

4. In what borough of New York City is the organization located that provides immigrant children and teenagers with valuable resources?

5. The Guatemalan girls in Luiselli's depiction of their interview are what ages?

(see the answer key)

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