Review Questions for “Crossing the BLVD”

1. Review Questions for“Crossing the BLVD”

2. The story titled “Teachers of Import,” is written about: • The customs agents in NYC who teach new immigrants how to navigate changing immigration laws • American born teachers in Queens who have travelled to the countries where Queens immigrants were born • Foreign teachers who have been recruited to work in the NYC schools • Professors from Queens College who teach new immigrants how to avoid being deported

3. The story titled “Teachers of Import,” is written about: • The customs agents in NYC who teach new immigrants how to navigate changing immigration laws • American born teachers in Queens who have travelled to the countries where Queens immigrants were born • Foreign teachers who have been recruited to work in the NYC schools • Professors from Queens College who teach new immigrants how to avoid being deported

4. Review Questions for“Crossing the BLVD”

5. “The Other Side of the Road,” the story of Marianna and Miguel from Puebla, Mexico, is about: • A brother and a sister who were raised in a two part house that was connected by a bridge that crossed over a road • A husband and wife who grew up in two towns that were separated by a road and who first met as teen actors in a play • A mother who was imprisoned and could only see her son when someone held him up outside the prison walls from “the other side of the road”

6. “The Other Side of the Road,” the story of Marianna and Miguel from Puebla, Mexico, is about: • A brother and a sister who were raised in a two part house that was connected by a bridge that crossed over a road • A husband and wife who grew up in two towns that were separated by a road and who first met as teen actors in a play • A mother who was imprisoned and could only see her son when someone held him up outside the prison walls from “the other side of the road”

7. Review Questions for“Crossing the BLVD”

8. “The Christmas Card” is a story about a Romanian lawyer whose parents “defected” to the U.S. without her. In Romania, her father was a: • Film maker who had also been in the military • Very well known chef • Famous professor at the most prestigious university in Bucharest • Baptist minister who converted to Judaism • Butcher who specialized in “carving up chickens faster than anyone in the country”

9. “The Christmas Card” is a story about a Romanian lawyer whose parents “defected” to the U.S. without her. In Romania, her father was a: • Film maker who had also been in the military • Very well known chef • Famous professor at the most prestigious university in Bucharest • Baptist minister who converted to Judaism • Butcher who specialized in “carving up chickens faster than anyone in the country”