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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After what length of time working with the Door in the immigration court cases does Luiselli begin to experience "feelings of frustration and defeat"?
(a) After a year.
(b) After a few months.
(c) After two weeks.
(d) After a month.

2. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?
(a) The Immigrant Children Advocates' Relief Effort.
(b) The United States Department of Homeland Security.
(c) Amnesty International.
(d) The Mexican government.

3. Luiselli describes Manu's police report as ending with what kind of sentiment by the police?
(a) A vague promise to set up a sting operation.
(b) A vague promise to investigate.
(c) A vague promise to prosecute.
(d) A vague promise to conduct a few interviews.

4. What does the term catracho mean?
(a) A person from Mexico City.
(b) A person from Juarez.
(c) A person from Chile.
(d) A person from Honduras.

5. To what object does Luiselli compare the boy's police report in an extended metaphor about its symbolism?
(a) A pencil sharpener.
(b) A paint set.
(c) A xylophone.
(d) A road map.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?

2. In what city did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18 gangs originate?

3. 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?

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

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

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