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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 asserts that a state compliance review ruled the practice of schools asking for immigration paperwork as what?
(a) Unconstitutional.
(b) Illegal.
(c) An act of hate crime.
(d) Improper.

2. The Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang started as a small coalition of immigrants from what country?
(a) El Salvador.
(b) Guatemala.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Brazil.

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

4. The U visa is granted by the United States government to whom?
(a) People who are fleeing persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, and/or association with a particular social group.
(b) Victims of human trafficking.
(c) Children whose parents are proven to be deceased.
(d) Victims of certain crimes determined by the government on a case-by-case basis.

5. 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) Philosophizing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Predicting.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what type of building does Luiselli compare the screening room where she interviews child refugees?

2. What organization does Luiselli name as the main good thing happening when everything else in the United States is seemingly falling apart?

3. What is the ultimate goal of Luiselli's work with child refugees?

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

5. What treaty signed after the Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico losing half its territory to the United States?

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