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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 ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?
(a) To write a book about the refugee crisis.
(b) To build a defense against their deportation.
(c) To ensure they will be reunited with their families.
(d) To give them a safe space to tell their stories.

2. 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?
(a) Reading.
(b) Writing.
(c) Predicting.
(d) Philosophizing.

3. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1886.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1901.

4. 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?
(a) Taxi.
(b) Trolley.
(c) Train.
(d) Subway.

5. The first public action of Luiselli's students' political organization occurs on the same day as what other event?
(a) The first presidential debate.
(b) Christmas.
(c) The breaking of ground at the border wall.
(d) The Fourth of July.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states that "the priority juvenile docket implied that deportation proceedings against children were accelerated by" (39) what percentage?

2. Some boys from what gang had waited outside of Manu's school one day, kicking off events that would end in tragedy?

3. What is Luiselli's reply when Manu asks her where she is from during the interview?

4. The family member Manu describes as the one who had always been the one sending money had lived in what location?

5. What does Luiselli tell her daughter when her daughter asks how a particular child refugee's story ends?

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