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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Court.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The person who meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on the author's first day of work at the New York immigration court introduces the author immediately to two members of what organization?
(a) Amnesty International.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The Door.
(d) The FBI.

2. Which United States administration created the priority juvenile docket?
(a) Carter.
(b) Obama.
(c) Trump.
(d) Reagan.

3. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?
(a) Do you intend to practice polygamy?
(b) Are you a member of the Socialist party?
(c) Are you a member of the Communist party?
(d) Have you ever knowingly committed a crime of moral turpitude?

4. Within what state is Luiselli's family when they first hear "about the wave of children arriving, alone and undocumented, at the border" (11)?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) New York.
(d) Kansas.

5. What part of Luiselli's first-day plan goes awry due to the volume of refugee children she receives in the office?
(a) The author had been instructed to shadow a lawyer for a whole day before interviewing children on her own.
(b) The author had been instructed to watch from behind a two-way mirror before interviewing children on her own.
(c) The author had been instructed to shadow a lawyer for a whole week before interviewing children on her own.
(d) The author had been instructed to watch a video about the process before interviewing children on her own.

Short Answer Questions

1. The three countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras make up the area of the world called what?

2. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?

3. What is NOT an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?

4. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?

5. 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)?

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