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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 first public action of Luiselli's students' political organization occurs on the same day as what other event?
(a) The Fourth of July.
(b) Christmas.
(c) The first presidential debate.
(d) The breaking of ground at the border wall.

2. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?
(a) Spanish.
(b) English.
(c) Russian.
(d) Arabic.

3. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?
(a) 80.
(b) 60.
(c) 25.
(d) 40.

4. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 102,000.
(c) 1000.
(d) 6,600.

5. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Detroit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?

2. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?

3. The Guatemalan girls in Luiselli's depiction of their interview are what ages?

4. What is the reason for Luiselli's gloom on the day when her students show up to class wearing their Refugees Welcome Here shirts?

5. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?

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