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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 is the name of Manu's aunt?
(a) Maria.
(b) Luisa.
(c) Alina.
(d) Mana.

2. Whom does Luiselli assert knows the answer to the question inquiring why people migrate from their home countries to the United States?
(a) Citizens of the United States.
(b) No one.
(c) The United States government.
(d) Immigrants.

3. How many South and Central American migrants were found at the site of a mass grave in 2010?
(a) 92.
(b) 45.
(c) 72.
(d) 63.

4. To what location does Luiselli compare when describing how an immigrant begins to think of his or her home country after a long time living in the United States?
(a) A beach.
(b) A backyard.
(c) A post office.
(d) A bank.

5. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?
(a) King.
(b) Broward.
(c) Nassau.
(d) Clark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?

2. How old was Luiselli's niece at the time she accompanied her aunt to Luiselli's first day as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?

3. What number interview was Luiselli's interview with Manu?

4. In what language is the list of memory-joggers written upon the whiteboard on Luiselli's first day interviewing child refugees?

5. The charge against a child immigrant fundamentally states "that the child came to the United States without lawful permission and is therefore" (58)?

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