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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the boy and girl encounter a man on a tractor while they are lost, the boy recognizes the man's name from what document?
(a) A gravestone.
(b) A birth certificate.
(c) A court summons.
(d) A map.

2. How many children does the family count as they walk out to the plane to be deported?
(a) 40 or 50.
(b) 30 or 40.
(c) 10 or 15.
(d) 15 or 20.

3. In the eighth elegy of the book Elegies for Lost Children, it is revealed that the boys in the group are allowed to relieve themselves a maximum of how many times per day while riding atop the train?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

4. When the boy describes eating "a real breakfast in a diner" (218) the reader is meant to recognize which location that was also described earlier in the narrative by the woman?
(a) Juliet Cafe.
(b) Aroma Cafe.
(c) Dixie's Cafe.
(d) Billie's Cafe.

5. The boy uses information from his pediatrician to determine that children usually do not retain memories made before what age?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. The boy recalls the man having once told a story about a little girl in Siberia whose life had been saved against all odds by what kind of animal?

2. What color is the book entitled Elegies for Lost Children?

3. To whom does the banker's box belong that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?

4. When the woman wants to know what the boy would do if he and the girl became lost, he answers that he would look for the man and the woman in what location?

5. When the woman finds fault with the boy's answer about what he would do if he and the girl became lost, what does she say is the right answer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bright spot does the boy say will remain in the situation even if the man and woman never find the two of them?

2. What event causes the boy to become unhappy for the first time since he and the girl had set out on their journey together?

3. In what way does the motif of music enter the part of the narrative when the boy and girl enter a diner to get some water?

4. What event causes the woman to question the boy about what he would do if he and the girl ever got lost while on their own?

5. What commonalities does the boy find between the careers of the man and the woman?

6. What sight in the backseat causes the woman to relent and to grant the boy's request to play "Space Oddity" again after the "fifth or sixth time" (156)?

7. In what habit does the girl often engage and what does she call her habit?

8. What example does the boy give when he claims that the girl is "sometimes really smart" (196)?

9. What does the reader learn by the end of Part I about the woman's own childhood?

10. Who is the rancher encountered by the boy and girl on their journey and why is the boy happy when he discovers the rancher's name?

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