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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luiselli say is always the children's reaction when they hear the words ganga or pandillero?
(a) They are ashamed at the mention of the words.
(b) They are excited by the mention of the words.
(c) They are saddened by the mention of the words.
(d) They are terrified by the mention of the words.

2. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?
(a) Her 36th.
(b) Her 1st.
(c) Her 13th.
(d) Her 100th.

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"?
(a) After a few months.
(b) After two weeks.
(c) After a month.
(d) After a year.

4. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?
(a) Holes.
(b) Bureaucracy.
(c) Idealists.
(d) Apathetic people.

5. What kind of court must make a ruling before a child immigrant can even request Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status in the immigration court?
(a) Civil court.
(b) Immigration court.
(c) Criminal court.
(d) Family court.

6. At the end of Part Four, Luiselli quotes a little girl stating her reason for coming to the United States. What does the little girl say was her reason for coming?
(a) Because she wanted to find her mother.
(b) Because she wanted to make her parents proud.
(c) Because she wanted to arrive.
(d) Because she wanted to survive.

7. 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) Melt.
(b) Break.
(c) Die.
(d) Live.

8. Luiselli sarcastically remarks that if an immigrant gets really comfortable in the United States, he or she may even begin to celebrate whom?
(a) The actions of Confederate soldiers in the Civil War.
(b) The pilgrims who removed the alien Indians.
(c) The president who instituted slavery.
(d) The woman who sewed the first American flag.

9. What is Manu's last name?
(a) Lopez.
(b) Dominguez.
(c) Laffrado.
(d) Torres.

10. Luiselli asserts that the main element needed to help the children involved in the refugee crisis since 2014 is what?
(a) Lawyers who will work pro bono.
(b) Doctors who will work for limited pay.
(c) Methods of communication between children and parents.
(d) The privatization of the coyote role.

11. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?
(a) 0.
(b) 212.
(c) 32.
(d) 28.

12. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?
(a) A foster family.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His aunt.

13. The Guatemalan girls in Luiselli's depiction of their interview are what ages?
(a) 12 and 15.
(b) 9 and 13.
(c) 2 and 3.
(d) 5 and 7.

14. What moniker does the class decide to refer to itself as during a class meeting?
(a) A refugee crisis emergency squad.
(b) A Spanish conversation class.
(c) A migration think tank.
(d) A humanitarian force to be reckoned with.

15. Luiselli states that there are things that an only be understood in what manner?
(a) Instinctually.
(b) Intuitively.
(c) With the help of a community.
(d) Retroactively.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?

2. In what month of 2015 does Luiselli report beginning the essay entitled Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?

3. How many students were in Luiselli's first class upon being hired at Hofstra University?

4. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?

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

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