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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. There is a saying about La Bestia that states, "Go in alive, come out a" (18) what?

2. What year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?

3. What is NOT a way in which Luiselli's family learns information about the developing child refugee crisis during their road trip?

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

5. In what city did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18 gangs originate?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way are Mexican children subject to different rules than refugees from other countries seeking asylum in the United States?

2. What statement does Luiselli make about the notion of accountability for a child refugee's safety?

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

4. How does Luiselli create a contrast in Part II: Court between two types of emergencies related to the refugee crisis?

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

6. What does the police report symbolize?

7. How does Luiselli employ symbolism within the depiction of blank spaces on the questionnaire she gives to undocumented children?

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

9. According to Luiselli, what do refugee children try to do if and when they do reach the United States and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Valeria Luiselli’s use of characterization methods to portray her own family members. What effect do these characterization methods have on the essay's inherent themes and messages?

Essay Topic 2

How does Valeria Luiselli go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance her arguments?

Essay Topic 3

How does the author employ the use or rejection of fallacy within her argumentative essay and how does the inclusion of fallacy help the author to prove her own points within the essay?

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