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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) 12.
(b) She says that she has never attended school.
(c) 13.
(d) 5.

2. The T visa is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Victims of human trafficking.
(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 certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.

3. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will unlearn what system?
(a) The legal system.
(b) The metric system.
(c) The public transportation system.
(d) The moral code.

4. The words migrants learn as they are on their way to the United States contain the sentiment that to leave is to do what a little?
(a) Live.
(b) Break.
(c) Melt.
(d) Die.

5. What does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?
(a) She tells her daughter that she refuses to say how it ends.
(b) She tells her daughter that she does not want to know how it ends.
(c) She tells her daughter that she will never know how it ends.
(d) She tells her daughter that she does not know how it ends yet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Luiselli assert knows the answer to the question inquiring why people migrate from their home countries to the United States?

2. What words does Luiselli say migrants learn when they are on their way to the United States?

3. What does Luiselli say is always the children's reaction when they hear the words ganga or pandillero?

4. What kind of court must make a ruling before a child immigrant can even request Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status in the immigration court?

5. Which question on the screening questionnaire does Luiselli describe as "the one that often opens Pandora's box" (73)?

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