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

2. The family member Manu describes as the one who had always been the one sending money had lived in what location?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) New York City.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Honduras.

3. Luiselli jokes with Manu during their first interview, saying that the two of them are only enemies in what sport?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Lacrosse.
(d) Soccer.

4. 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 collapse on the floor.
(b) To cry.
(c) To stifle her laughter.
(d) To hug her students.

5. Luiselli is a resident of what city at the time of the essay's writing?
(a) New York City.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Mexico City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luiselli's students insist that what organizations in the area have to offer some kind of sustained relief for the refugee crisis?

2. How old is Manu at the time he is interviewed by Luiselli?

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

4. What tool does Luiselli's family use to navigate during their road trip?

5. 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?

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