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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 remarks that often, which field is left blank by child responders on the questionnaire she is required to use?
(a) The field asking the whereabouts of a child's parents.
(b) The field asking the name of the coyote associated with the child's journey.
(c) The field asking the child's current address.
(d) The field asking the date a child had departed from his or her home country.

2. Luiselli states that she and her niece "almost always leave immigration court" (68) in what manner?
(a) In haste.
(b) Only when they are exhausted.
(c) With reluctance.
(d) In silence.

3. When Luiselli arrives in her classroom and sees her students wearing their Refugees Welcome Here tee shirts, she says it had been hard not to take what action?
(a) To stifle her laughter.
(b) To hug her students.
(c) To cry.
(d) To collapse on the floor.

4. Luiselli states that if the sisters' "answers didn't align with what the law considers reason enough for the right to protection, the only possible ending to their story was going to be" (66) what?
(a) A reunion with family.
(b) A death sentence.
(c) A deportation order.
(d) A bleak future.

5. Luiselli describes how all immigrants view the cruelty of the United States' border as what type of object?
(a) A hard outer shell.
(b) A thin crust.
(c) A crack in the veneer.
(d) A fly in the ointment.

Short Answer Questions

1. The U visa is granted by the United States government to whom?

2. A lawyer eventually reveals that the list upon the whiteboard is meant to help children recall the phases of their what during the interview?

3. Where is Luiselli headed when she encounters the man with the Make America Great Again hat?

4. Luiselli states, "It was clear that our only role in the court was to serve as a fragile and slippery" (67) what between the refugee children and the United States court system?

5. Luiselli states that for her family's first three years living in the United States, they had been termed as what by immigration law?

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