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

2. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?
(a) She says that she is a catracho.
(b) She says that she is a chilanga.
(c) She says she is a gato.
(d) She says that she is albierto.

3. Luiselli asserts that in what state many public schools deny immigrant children entry based on the illegal practice of asking for proper immigration paperwork?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Florida.
(d) New York.

4. To what type of building does Luiselli compare the screening room where she interviews child refugees?
(a) A funeral home.
(b) A church.
(c) A doctor's office.
(d) A school.

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?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) She says that she has never attended school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?

2. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?

3. The Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang started as a small coalition of immigrants from what country?

4. In what month of 2015 does Luiselli report beginning the essay entitled Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?

5. Who created the screening questionnaire used by Luiselli in her interviews with child refugees?

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