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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does the boy hope will appear in the photograph he takes at the Baltimore aquarium?
(a) An octopus.
(b) A fish.
(c) A starfish.
(d) A turtle.

2. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarist" (98)?
(a) The man.
(b) The girl.
(c) The boy.
(d) The woman.

3. How are the boy and girl related to the man and the woman with whom they are traveling?
(a) The girl and boy are the niece and nephew of the man and woman.
(b) The girl is the woman's biological daughter and the boy is the man's biological son.
(c) The girl and boy are the children of family friends.
(d) The girl and boy are the biological children of the man.

4. Whose tomb does the family visit just outside of Lawton?
(a) Chief Cochise's.
(b) Lozen's.
(c) Sacajawea's.
(d) Geronimo's.

5. What past tense verb does the woman use to describe the action she and the man had taken in relation to language for their long-term collaborative project?
(a) Sampled.
(b) Spoke.
(c) Transcribed.
(d) Heard.

6. For how many years have the man and the woman at the center of the narrative known one another?
(a) 1 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 2 years.

7. When the family reaches a motel modeled after Elvis's persona, which member of the family has enthusiasm that proves to be contagious?
(a) The girl.
(b) The woman.
(c) The boy.
(d) The man.

8. To what kind of establishment does the woman walk the night she ends up in a flirtatious encounter with a stranger?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A bar.
(c) A roller skating rink.
(d) A bowling alley.

9. The woman tells the reader that the man no longer looks "very often" (43) at what part of her body?
(a) Her legs.
(b) Her waist.
(c) Her eyes.
(d) Her neck.

10. Manuela reports to the woman that her two daughters have disappeared somewhere between two detention centers in what states?
(a) California and Arizona.
(b) New Mexico and Texas.
(c) Texas and Arizona.
(d) New Mexico and Arizona.

11. The woman muses at one point that what element, when "real and sustained" (82) is hard to achieve within marriage?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Respect.
(c) Affection.
(d) Generosity.

12. On the way to Lawton, the man and woman promise the boy and girl a visit to what location?
(a) An amusement park.
(b) A basketball court.
(c) A swimming pool.
(d) The UFO museum.

13. Whenever the woman turns on the radio in the family car, the first line of what novel is heard before anything else?
(a) The Bean Trees.
(b) A Clockwork Orange.
(c) Lord of the Flies.
(d) The Road.

14. Whose belief that the road trip is moving too slowly results in a quicker pace from then on?
(a) The boy.
(b) The woman.
(c) The girl.
(d) The man.

15. The Bosavi people believe that the only sounds that constitute "the voice of memory and the resonance of ancestry" (98) are made by what creatures?
(a) Insects.
(b) Whales.
(c) Birds.
(d) Cats.

Short Answer Questions

1. The girl becomes obsessed with the fact that which historical figure had died after falling off his horse?

2. During the road trip, the girl develops an obsession with a book called "The Book with No" (99) what?

3. With whom does the woman share news of trouble in her marriage before the family leaves for the road trip?

4. From what state does the family at the center of the narrative depart at the beginning of the novel?

5. In what type of dwelling had the man, woman, boy, and girl first lived together?

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