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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT contained in the police report Manu presents to Luiselli during her first-ever interview of a child refugee?
(a) Gang members had waited outside of the boy's high school every day.
(b) Gang members had been following the boy home.
(c) Gang members had been urging him to traffic drugs.
(d) Gang members had been threatening to kill him.

2. Luiselli asserts that until what action is taken, "solutions to the [refugee] crisis will be impossible" (46)?
(a) Until every involved polluter acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(b) Until every involved charity organization acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(c) Until every involved financial institution acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.
(d) Until every involved government acknowledges its shared accountability for the refugee crisis.

3. Which president of the United States was involved in enacting the Indian Removal Act?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

4. A person with what job meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on Luiselli's first day of work at the New York immigration court?
(a) Interpreter.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Social worker.
(d) Lawyer.

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

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

7. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?
(a) The Chamizal Convention.
(b) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
(c) The Treaty of Dannemora.
(d) The TRIPS agreement.

8. 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)?
(a) Backup.
(b) Security.
(c) An excuse.
(d) A tourniquet.

9. The Barrio 18 members had grown up in the gang culture of what city?
(a) Tijuana.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Quito.

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

11. During what decade did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and the Barrio 18 gangs originate?
(a) The 1990s.
(b) The 2000s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1980s.

12. According to Luiselli, what is most often the answer given when child refugees are asked their reason for coming to the United States?
(a) To seek a better life in pursuit of the American Dream.
(b) To get a job and send money back to other family members in the child's home country.
(c) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States at the same time as the child.
(d) Reunification with a family member who had migrated to the United States years earlier.

13. What is NOT listed by Luiselli as a way that children refugees answer the question about when they had entered the United States?
(a) They say on their birthday.
(b) They say a few months ago.
(c) They say last year.
(d) They say they do not know.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?

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

3. In what borough of New York City is the organization located that provides immigrant children and teenagers with valuable resources?

4. 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?

5. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?

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