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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 feeling does her students' enthusiasm and hope for the future at least momentarily dampen within Luiselli's own mind?
(a) Shame.
(b) Pride.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Despair.

2. After the introduction of the priority juvenile docket, how long were minors seeking immigration relief given to find lawyers?
(a) 21 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 21 days.
(d) 24 months.

3. What emotion does Luiselli's student share with her after they drop Manu off at his house?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Pride.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Shame.

4. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?
(a) The Treaty of Dannemora.
(b) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
(c) The Chamizal Convention.
(d) The TRIPS agreement.

5. When Luiselli describes the media's treatment of the child refugees, what metaphor does she use to represent how the media treats the children?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Locusts.
(d) Flies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Luiselli had to do before whispering her one sentence to the man wearing the Make America Great Again hat?

2. The family member Manu describes as the one who had always been the one sending money had lived in what location?

3. In what year did Luiselli begin working as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?

4. What does the term catracho mean?

5. Luiselli states that to take what action "is the founding myth of" (98) American society?

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