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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 "the main problem with asylum is that if it's granted, the children can never" (59) take what action?
(a) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(b) Leave the United States without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.
(c) Return to their home countries without jeopardizing their citizen status in their home countries.
(d) Recover their belongings without jeopardizing their immigration status in the United States.

2. 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) Reporting.
(c) Writing.
(d) Exercising.

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

4. What does the term catracho mean?
(a) A person from Mexico City.
(b) A person from Juarez.
(c) A person from Chile.
(d) A person from Honduras.

5. 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 woman who sewed the first American flag.
(c) The pilgrims who removed the alien Indians.
(d) The president who instituted slavery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Luiselli states that to take what action "is the founding myth of" (98) American society?

3. 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?

4. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?

5. The Guatemalan girls in Luiselli's depiction of their interview are what ages?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. What do Luiselli's students mean when they say, "We don't want to be voluntourists in our own town anymore"? (93)

6. In which states have the highest numbers of children been released to sponsors since the declaration of the refugee crisis?

7. Why are child refugees not entitled to "the free legal counsel that American law guarantees" (67) to so many?

8. What kinds of professionals did Luiselli bring in to speak to her Advanced Conversation class?

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

10. 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?

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