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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'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?
(a) They wanted to trade political capital for emotional capital.
(b) They wanted to trade emotional capital for political capital.
(c) They wanted to trade political capital for monetary capital.
(d) They wanted to trade material capital for political capital.

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

3. To what location does Luiselli compare when describing how an immigrant begins to think of his or her home country after a long time living in the United States?
(a) A bank.
(b) A post office.
(c) A backyard.
(d) A beach.

4. On what topic does Nimmi Gowrinathan deliver a lecture when visiting Luiselli's class?
(a) Political activism.
(b) White privilege.
(c) Classism.
(d) Humanitarian efforts.

5. How far into the semester does Luiselli say her first group of students began to speak up?
(a) Three-quarters of the way through the semester.
(b) One week before the end of the semester.
(c) After the first five minutes.
(d) Halfway through the semester.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?

3. With whom had the mother of the two Guatemalan girls left the girls when migrating to the United States?

4. The acronym TIIA stands for Teenage Immigrant what Association?

5. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will unlearn what system?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Luiselli depict speaking about trauma as an effective method of processing it?

2. What sacrifices does Luiselli name as ones immigrants are willing to make in order to stay in the United States?

3. How does the theme of sacrifice arise within the final passages of Part IV: Community?

4. How does Luiselli get across the way in which the dangerous trek to the United States is only the beginning of a child refugee's struggles?

5. What is the symbolism of Luiselli's daughter's question regarding the fates of the child refugees?

6. For what reason was Manu forced to stop attending his school in Long Beach, California?

7. What solidified belief does Luiselli carry about the child refugees, based on her experiences screening such children at The Door?

8. How does Luiselli use the motif of sound to make a particular point within Part III: Home?

9. Describe Luiselli's employment of imagery in order to get across what it feels like for immigrants once they have been in the United States for a sustained period of time.

10. When the Spanish Conversation class led by Luiselli renounces their name, what do they call the class instead and why is their choice significant?

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