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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Asylum is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.
(b) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(c) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(d) Victims of human trafficking.

2. 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)?
(a) Security.
(b) An excuse.
(c) A tourniquet.
(d) Backup.

3. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?
(a) Removable.
(b) A resident.
(c) An alien.
(d) Unable to apply for asylum or immigrant status.

4. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) A foster family.
(d) His brother.

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?
(a) 32.
(b) 28.
(c) 0.
(d) 212.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?

2. The U visa is granted by the United States government to whom?

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

4. Before the immigration crisis was officially declared, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?

5. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?

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