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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 product did Luiselli's students prepare for the protests on the college campus?
(a) Songs.
(b) Costumes.
(c) Signs.
(d) Speeches.

2. Luiselli states that her mind is trained to read the world as part of what type of plot?
(a) A complex plot.
(b) A misogynistic plot.
(c) A narrative plot.
(d) A fiendish plot.

3. Luiselli states that to live in the United States, immigrants will unlearn what system?
(a) The public transportation system.
(b) The legal system.
(c) The metric system.
(d) The moral code.

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

5. What is NOT an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?
(a) More cynical.
(b) Sunnier.
(c) Colder.
(d) More brutal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose point of view does Luiselli claim is always ignored within the struggle to understand the refugee crisis?

2. Luiselli's students insist that what organizations in the area have to offer some kind of sustained relief for the refugee crisis?

3. Who does Luiselli name as the person who has "somehow" (101) become the president of the United States since the time of her original essay's publication?

4. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?

5. For what reason had Manu originally wanted his real name printed in Luiselli's essay?

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