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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many South and Central American migrants were found at the site of a mass grave in 2010?
(a) 72.
(b) 45.
(c) 92.
(d) 63.

2. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
(a) The field asking the child's current address.
(b) The field asking the date a child had departed from his or her home country.
(c) The field asking the name of the coyote associated with the child's journey.
(d) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.

3. 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) Scaffolding.
(c) A light bulb.
(d) A blanket.

4. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?
(a) English.
(b) Russian.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Spanish.

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 week before interviewing children on her own.
(b) The author had been instructed to shadow a lawyer for a whole day before interviewing children on her own.
(c) The author had been instructed to watch from behind a two-way mirror 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. How old was Luiselli's niece at the time she accompanied her aunt to Luiselli's first day as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?

2. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?

3. What is NOT a way in which Luiselli's family learns information about the developing child refugee crisis during their road trip?

4. 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?

5. Within what state is Luiselli's family when they first hear "about the wave of children arriving, alone and undocumented, at the border" (11)?

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