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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 Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang started as a small coalition of immigrants from what country?
(a) El Salvador.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Guatemala.
(d) Mexico.

2. Luiselli describes Manu's police report as ending with what kind of sentiment by the police?
(a) A vague promise to investigate.
(b) A vague promise to set up a sting operation.
(c) A vague promise to prosecute.
(d) A vague promise to conduct a few interviews.

3. Luiselli states that "It only takes a group of ten motivated students to begin making" (95) what kind of difference?
(a) Small.
(b) Meaningful.
(c) Monumental.
(d) Life-changing.

4. Which United States administration created the priority juvenile docket?
(a) Reagan.
(b) Carter.
(c) Obama.
(d) Trump.

5. The organization S.T.R.O.N.G. is a nonprofit that focuses on teenagers in what location who are vulnerable to falling prey to gangs?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Long Island.
(d) The east side of Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a way in which Luiselli's family learns information about the developing child refugee crisis during their road trip?

2. What object does Luiselli claim is "in a way, a replica of the U.S. immigration system" (35)?

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

4. When the Luiselli's students present their plan outlining the rest of the semester, how do they want to spend the remaining class time?

5. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?

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