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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Coda: Eight Brief Postscripts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a duty performed by Luiselli in her role as an interpreter?
(a) Recording the children's answers.
(b) Translating the children's answers for lawyers.
(c) Getting coffee for her partner.
(d) Interviewing the children in court.

2. In what year did Luiselli write the Coda section?
(a) 2018.
(b) 2017.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2015.

3. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
(a) The field asking the name of the coyote associated with the child's journey.
(b) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.
(c) The field asking the child's current address.
(d) The field asking the date a child had departed from his or her home country.

4. What activity does Luiselli wonder if she is still allowed to do after she is forced to temporarily resign from her teaching position?
(a) Reporting.
(b) Writing.
(c) Exercising.
(d) Contacting the child refugees.

5. Who does Luiselli name as the person who has "somehow" (101) become the president of the United States since the time of her original essay's publication?
(a) Clinton.
(b) Bush.
(c) Obama.
(d) Trump.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Manu's last name?

2. Luiselli states that her favorite of the photographs sent to her by students the day of their second public action included what object?

3. What is the title of Part Four of Valeria Luiselli's essay Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?

4. In what city does Luiselli's family learn that many refugee children from Honduras are being deported back to their home country after just having arrived in the United States?

5. What urge does Luiselli have to quell when she first sees the man wearing the Make America Great Again hat?

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