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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A tourniquet.
(b) An excuse.
(c) Backup.
(d) Security.

2. When Luiselli describes the media's treatment of the child refugees, what metaphor does she use to represent how the media treats the children?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Flies.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Locusts.

3. The person who meets Luiselli and her niece downstairs on the author's first day of work at the New York immigration court introduces the author immediately to two members of what organization?
(a) Amnesty International.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The Door.
(d) The CIA.

4. A lawyer eventually reveals that the list upon the whiteboard is meant to help children recall the phases of their what during the interview?
(a) Struggle.
(b) Future.
(c) Life.
(d) Journey.

5. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?
(a) Police.
(b) Border Patrol.
(c) Bribe.
(d) Vigilante.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?

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

3. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?

4. The Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang started as a small coalition of immigrants from what country?

5. According to Luiselli, what is most often the answer given when child refugees are asked their reason for coming to the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. What themes does the Introduction name within Luiselli's essay?

2. For what reason are child refugees often untruthful or evasive in their answers to the intake questionnaire?

3. What does Luiselli mean when she states that Manu's police report acted as "a road map of a migration"? (43)

4. How does Luiselli incorporate the discussion of race into the discussion of the refugee crisis?

5. What skill does Luiselli present as the most important one when she interviews child refugees in court?

6. For what reason do child refugees attempt to be "formally detained by Border Patrol officers" (18) once they reach the border between the United States and Mexico?

7. Why do the answers to one particular question on the intake questionnaire cause Luiselli to feel ashamed?

8. What does the police report symbolize?

9. Which actions taken by Luiselli and her niece demonstrate the women's dedication to helping victims of the refugee crisis?

10. La Bestia's routes begin in which two towns?

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