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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. 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 date a child had departed from his or her home country.
(c) The field asking the child's current address.
(d) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.

2. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?
(a) In his backpack.
(b) In his shoe.
(c) In his pants pocket.
(d) In his hat.

3. Who is prohibited from joining the children during their interviews with Luiselli?
(a) Their social workers.
(b) ICE officers.
(c) Their relatives.
(d) The police.

4. 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) Massachusetts.
(b) Florida.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) New York.

5. In what city did the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18 gangs originate?
(a) Tijuana.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Mexico City.
(d) Rio.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time of Luiselli's first interview of Manu, with whom is Manu living?

2. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will accept that how many degrees is the dividing line between cold and freezing?

3. What is the name of Manu's aunt?

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

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

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