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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 plays a song by what artist on repeat as she goes to work while wearing her Refugees Welcome Here shirt?
(a) Marvin Gaye.
(b) Tyler the Creator.
(c) Ludacris.
(d) Kendrick Lamar.

2. What is NOT a question asked in the United States green card application?
(a) Do you intend to practice polygamy?
(b) Have you ever knowingly committed a crime of moral turpitude?
(c) Are you a member of the Communist party?
(d) Are you a member of the Socialist party?

3. What urge does Luiselli have to quell when she first sees the man wearing the Make America Great Again hat?
(a) The urge to ask him his intentions.
(b) The urge to insult him.
(c) The urge to snatch his hat off.
(d) The urge to ask him if he is a racist.

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

5. What year does Luiselli's described family road trip take place?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2014.
(c) 2011.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of people does Luiselli NOT list when explaining the dangers of riding La Bestia?

2. What is the ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?

3. Luiselli cites an example of altruism by depicting the volunteer activities of a young man who immigrated from what country to Spain when he was a little boy?

4. Within what state is Luiselli's family when they first hear "about the wave of children arriving, alone and undocumented, at the border" (11)?

5. Which question on the screening questionnaire does Luiselli describe as "the one that often opens Pandora's box" (73)?

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