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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 urge does Luiselli have to quell when she first sees the man wearing the Make America Great Again hat?
(a) The urge to insult him.
(b) The urge to ask him his intentions.
(c) The urge to ask him if he is a racist.
(d) The urge to snatch his hat off.

2. Where does Manu keep the police report that he shows to Luiselli on her first day conducting interviews?
(a) In his hat.
(b) In his shoe.
(c) In his pants pocket.
(d) In his backpack.

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

4. The acronym TIIA stands for Teenage Immigrant what Association?
(a) Intervention.
(b) Implementation.
(c) Integration.
(d) Invention.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the man wearing the Make America Great Again hat whom Luiselli encounters on the subway?

2. What county does Luiselli say is guilty of denying entrance to many children based on their lack of appropriate immigration papers?

3. What moniker does the class decide to refer to itself as during a class meeting?

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?

5. Asylum is granted by the United States government to whom?

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