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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What right does Luiselli say "United States law guarantees" for all children, "no matter their nationality or immigrant status" (92)?
(a) Citizenship.
(b) Free public education.
(c) The right to work.
(d) Access to medical care.

2. The words migrants learn on the way to the United States contains the sentiment that to arrive is what?
(a) Never to arrive.
(b) To arrive.
(c) To belong.
(d) To find home.

3. Which of Manu's family members does he say had always been the one to send money?
(a) His sister.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

4. By whom does Manu say he had been raised until a year ago?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His father.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His mother.

5. 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) Law.
(d) Education.

6. What type of person is NOT listed among the people Luiselli brought to speak to her first group of students at Hofstra University?
(a) Activists.
(b) Professors.
(c) Political scientists.
(d) Social workers.

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

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

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

10. What words does Luiselli say migrants learn when they are on their way to the United States?
(a) The plea for asylum in English.
(b) The Immigrant's Prayer.
(c) Miranda rights.
(d) The Lord's Prayer.

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

12. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?
(a) Florida.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) New York.

13. 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.

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

15. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Contacting the child refugees.
(b) Writing.
(c) Exercising.
(d) Reporting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli's students told her that they wanted to transform one type of capital into another. What type of capital did they want to trade for another?

2. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?

3. Luiselli states that "the main problem with asylum is that if it's granted, the children can never" (59) take what action?

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

5. How far into the semester does Luiselli say her first group of students began to speak up?

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