Upfront Quiz - 1/17/19

A) She wanted to make sure her mother was safe in the US

B) She thought the journey to the US border would be easy

C) She was afraid the police would take her back to her kidnappers

D) She knew that the US asylum laws were going to become stricter

A) someone who applies to come to the US from abroad

B) someone who moves to the US temporarily because of a job transfer

C) someone who is carefully vetted before arriving in the US

D) someone who arrives at the US border and applies for protection

A) She has just received asylum

B) She will soon be deported back to Honduras

C) She is trying to find a lawyer to handle her case

D) She is waiting for the government to rule on her asylum application

A) 5%

B) 10%

C) 25%

D) 40%

A) 150 tons

B) 3,000 tons

C) 700,000 tons

D) 9 million tons

A) It quickly dissolves into a liquid

B) It melds with other plastic items

C) It breaks down into tiny pieces over time

D) It maintains the form it had when it entered the ocean

A) the process for appealing a lower court's ruling

B) the ways in which social media can be used on school grounds

C) the forms of speech people can legally engage in when protesting

D) the extent of public school students' right to freedom of speech

A) Limit any form of speech by students

B) Take certain actions to prevent students from filing lawsuits against them

C) Discipline students more harshly for breaking school rules if their actions have a political nature

D) None of the above are correct