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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. The acronym TIIA stands for Teenage Immigrant what Association?
(a) Invention.
(b) Integration.
(c) Intervention.
(d) Implementation.

2. What moniker does the class decide to refer to itself as during a class meeting?
(a) A Spanish conversation class.
(b) A refugee crisis emergency squad.
(c) A migration think tank.
(d) A humanitarian force to be reckoned with.

3. Luiselli states, "It was clear that our only role in the court was to serve as a fragile and slippery" (67) what between the refugee children and the United States court system?
(a) Ladder.
(b) Bridge.
(c) Rope.
(d) Hand clasp.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Luiselli's students told her that they wanted to transform one type of capital into another. What type of capital did they want to trade for another?

3. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?

4. What is the meaning of the Spanish word migra?

5. What kind of court must make a ruling before a child immigrant can even request Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status in the immigration court?

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