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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luiselli states that "the main problem with asylum is that if it's granted, the children can never" (59) take what action?
(a) Leave the United States without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(b) Recover their belongings without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(c) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(d) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their citizen status in their home countries.

2. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?
(a) 34%.
(b) 94%.
(c) 54%.
(d) 64%.

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

4. Luiselli jokes with Manu during their first interview, saying that the two of them are only enemies in what sport?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Lacrosse.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Cricket.

5. Luiselli states that for her family's first three years living in the United States, they had been termed as what by immigration law?
(a) Resident aliens.
(b) Pending aliens.
(c) Removable aliens.
(d) Nonresident aliens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?

2. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?

3. After what length of time working with the Door in the immigration court cases does Luiselli begin to experience "feelings of frustration and defeat"?

4. 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)?

5. After the introduction of the priority juvenile docket, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?

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