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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?
(a) She says that she is a chilanga.
(b) She says she is a gato.
(c) She says that she is albierto.
(d) She says that she is a catracho.

2. 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) The privatization of the coyote role.
(c) Methods of communication between children and parents.
(d) Doctors who will work for limited pay.

3. What happened to cause Luiselli to have to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Her work permit expired.
(b) A client filed a lawsuit against her.
(c) Her passport expired.
(d) A lawyer needed her full-time help with a case.

4. The acronym TIIA stands for Teenage Immigrant what Association?
(a) Invention.
(b) Integration.
(c) Intervention.
(d) Implementation.

5. The organization called TIIA has an acronym that plays on the Spanish word for what English term?
(a) Mother.
(b) Aunt.
(c) Brother.
(d) Sister.

6. The day before the two sisters left Guatemala, their grandmother sewed what number into the collars of their dresses?
(a) Their mother's phone number.
(b) Their social security numbers.
(c) Their grandfather's address.
(d) Their ages.

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

8. 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) 13.
(c) 5.
(d) She says that she has never attended school.

9. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?
(a) 18.
(b) 8.
(c) 13.
(d) 16.

10. Luiselli states that she and her niece "almost always leave immigration court" (68) in what manner?
(a) In haste.
(b) Only when they are exhausted.
(c) With reluctance.
(d) In silence.

11. 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 a year.
(c) After two weeks.
(d) After a month.

12. With whom had the mother of the two Guatemalan girls left the girls when migrating to the United States?
(a) Their stepfather.
(b) Their grandmother.
(c) Their aunt.
(d) Their cousin.

13. One day while Luiselli and her niece are walking to the train station, Luiselli's niece that she has decided to major in what course of study?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Social work.
(c) Education.
(d) Law.

14. Asylum is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(b) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(c) Victims of human trafficking.
(d) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.

15. In what month of 2015 does Luiselli report beginning the essay entitled Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) June.
(b) March.
(c) November.
(d) January.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?

4. What is the ultimate result of Manu's encounter with the gang who waits outside of his school one day?

5. What did Luiselli decide would be the topic of study within the first class she taught at Hofstra University?

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