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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 La Bestia?
(a) A gondola.
(b) A bus.
(c) A train.
(d) A river system.

2. How does the older of the two sisters from Guatemala respond when Luiselli asks her how old she had been when she had first attended school?
(a) 5.
(b) She says that she has never attended school.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

3. For what reason does Luiselli leave Manu's real name out of the essay?
(a) Because she wants him to start with a clean slate.
(b) Because publishing his real name could endanger his life.
(c) Because she knows that any income he receives will be seized.
(d) Because publishing his real name could endanger his immigration status.

4. In what month of 2015 does Luiselli report beginning the essay entitled Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions?
(a) November.
(b) March.
(c) June.
(d) January.

5. What does Luiselli decide to do when she wants to support her students' efforts?
(a) She gives them all As.
(b) She gives them cash.
(c) She orders them tee shirts.
(d) She buys them dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli states unequivocally that all child refugees from Mexico and Central America travel with whom?

2. Which of Manu's family members does he say had always been the one to send money?

3. Luiselli jokes with Manu during their first interview, saying that the two of them are only enemies in what sport?

4. What happened to cause Luiselli to have to temporarily resign from her teaching position?

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

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