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

2. Luiselli plays a song by what artist on repeat as she goes to work while wearing her Refugees Welcome Here shirt?
(a) Tyler the Creator.
(b) Marvin Gaye.
(c) Ludacris.
(d) Kendrick Lamar.

3. In what year was the Indian Removal Act approved by Congress?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1901.

4. What is NOT contained in the police report Manu presents to Luiselli during her first-ever interview of a child refugee?
(a) Gang members had been following the boy home.
(b) Gang members had been urging him to traffic drugs.
(c) Gang members had been threatening to kill him.
(d) Gang members had waited outside of the boy's high school every day.

5. What form of transportation did Luiselli take to the immigration court on the author's first day of work?
(a) Train.
(b) Subway.
(c) Taxi.
(d) Segway.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the term for someone hired to accompany a migrant to a particular border?

3. In what color paint does Luiselli's six-year-old daughter cover her face as she announces that she is getting ready for when Trump is president?

4. Luiselli explains that "what happens to children during their journey through" what country "is worse than what happens anywhere else" (24)?

5. Luiselli points out the sad irony of the situation when she states that "if the child answers the questionnaire" (61) in what manner, "he or she is more likely to have a case strong enough to increase its chances of being placed with a pro bono attorney" (61)?

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