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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 states that for her family's first three years living in the United States, they had been termed as what by immigration law?
(a) Pending aliens.
(b) Resident aliens.
(c) Removable aliens.
(d) Nonresident aliens.

2. What feeling does her students' enthusiasm and hope for the future at least momentarily dampen within Luiselli's own mind?
(a) Pride.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Despair.
(d) Shame.

3. 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 post office.
(b) A backyard.
(c) A beach.
(d) A bank.

4. How many people show up to the event planned by Luiselli's students upon their second public act as a political organization?
(a) 20.
(b) 100.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

5. Between April 2014 and August 2015, how may unaccompanied children were detained at the border between the United States and Mexico?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 6,600.
(c) 102,000.
(d) 1000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli asserts that until what action is taken, "solutions to the [refugee] crisis will be impossible" (46)?

2. In what city does Luiselli's family learn that many refugee children from Honduras are being deported back to their home country after just having arrived in the United States?

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

4. With what question does Luiselli begin the essay?

5. The organization S.T.R.O.N.G. is a nonprofit that focuses on teenagers in what location who are vulnerable to falling prey to gangs?

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