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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. In what year did Luiselli begin working as an interpreter in the New York immigration court?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1992.

2. Luiselli creates a metaphor for the similarities among the children's stories by depicting the scribbling on the whiteboard as what object?
(a) A blanket.
(b) A light bulb.
(c) A brick.
(d) Scaffolding.

3. 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) 13.
(b) 5.
(c) She says that she has never attended school.
(d) 12.

4. Luiselli states that much later, she had come to understand that what she and her niece "were really doing that morning [on the first day of their new jobs] was providing" what "for organizations dealing with an emergency" (38)?
(a) An excuse.
(b) Backup.
(c) Security.
(d) A tourniquet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of transportation did Luiselli take to the immigration court on the author's first day of work?

2. How many Central Americans are estimated to ride La Bestia annually?

3. What is NOT an adjective Luiselli uses to describe the reality revealed by the intake questionnaire for undocumented children, when compared to the United States green card application?

4. Enrique Pena Nieto is the president of what country at the time of the coda's writing?

5. What course does Luiselli describe teaching at Hofstra University?

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