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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 process by which a child refugee is asked questions during an intake interview is called what?
(a) Screening.
(b) Lining.
(c) Prioritizing.
(d) Triage.

2. What percentage of women and girls who cross Mexico on their way to the United States border are raped along the way?
(a) 40.
(b) 80.
(c) 60.
(d) 25.

3. How old is the man wearing the Make America Great Again hat whom Luiselli encounters on the subway?
(a) In his 30s.
(b) In his 40s.
(c) In his teens.
(d) In his 20s.

4. What country is NOT represented within the group that shows up to the event planned by Luiselli's students?
(a) Mexico.
(b) El Salvador.
(c) Honduras.
(d) Guatemala.

5. In what color paint does Luiselli's six-year-old daughter cover her face as she announces that she is getting ready for when Trump is president?
(a) Black.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of transportation do Luiselli and her niece utilize to get home from their first day conducting interviews, causing the author to think of the mystical quality of the boy's police report?

2. Luiselli states that her mind is trained to read the world as part of what type of plot?

3. In the Coda, Valeria Luiselli wonders why her skills in what area had not helped her to predict the course that the refugee crisis would take after the 2016 election?

4. How far into the semester does Luiselli say her first group of students began to speak up?

5. The author asserts that "the United States is a country full of" (95) what?

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