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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object does the boy throw off the cliff as part of his plan to break the silence cast upon the meal by the man and the woman?
(a) A branch.
(b) A shoe.
(c) A popsicle.
(d) A hat.

2. The boy says that when the man gets in one of his melancholy moods, he never takes what action?
(a) He never looks at the children.
(b) He never looks at his wife.
(c) He never stops clenching his teeth.
(d) He never smiles.

3. What piece of information does the woman ask the boy to recite upon demand?
(a) The girl's blood type.
(b) His social security number.
(c) The phone numbers of the man and the woman.
(d) The family's address in New York City.

4. When the boy considers whether the black birds above may be forming arrows, he decides that only what type of bird "can be trusted" (264)?
(a) A magpie.
(b) A falcon.
(c) A raven.
(d) An eagle.

5. How many maps are contained within Box IV?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

6. From what town does the boy plan to hop aboard a train while in the company of the girl?
(a) Sugar Pine.
(b) Lordsburg.
(c) Elko.
(d) Ellis.

7. The coyote threatens the children under his supervision with violence after one of children commits what transgression?
(a) Lies.
(b) Asks a question.
(c) Falls behind.
(d) Cries.

8. What color is the book entitled Elegies for Lost Children?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

9. The coyote in Elegies for Lost Children begins with how many children under his supervision on their way to the United States?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 11.
(d) 4.

10. In what part of Mexico had the woman's mother joined a guerilla movement after leaving her family?
(a) Southern.
(b) Northern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Western.

11. With what Roman numeral is the box marked that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?
(a) V.
(b) II.
(c) III.
(d) VII.

12. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes says that he and the girl are going to look for the "lost" (238) what?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Girls.
(d) Boys.

13. What term does the boy use to describe the things he had "invented and perfected way before" (204) the family's road trip?
(a) Hand-traps.
(b) Arrow-maps.
(c) Finger-maps.
(d) Nap-clouds.

14. Once the family has decided to travel toward the airport near Roswell, for how many weeks have they been driving?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

15. The woman claims that fear "in the daytime, under the sun" (157) belongs to whom?
(a) Adults.
(b) The living.
(c) The lonely.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman remarks that while the man is driving, if she asks him what he is thinking about, he "usually" (156) replies with what word?

2. What is NOT something to which the woman has been accustomed within the confines of the car during the road trip?

3. What object does the woman attack in anger when she sees the immigration officers take a certain action when the plane starts to move?

4. Once the narrative perspective shifts away from the woman, to whom does the narrative voice transfer?

5. The epigraph by Virginia Woolf introducing Box IV mentions which vehicle of transportation?

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