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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When the boy says that when he is older his hobby will be to "document things," (233) he says that he will be a what?
2. After the woman's mother had gone to join a guerilla movement, how much time passed before the woman saw her mother again?
3. Which object that the boy puts into his backpack as he prepares for the trek into the desert does not belong to the woman?
4. How many children at the train yard dedicate their time to caring for the refugee children's damaged feet?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. What example does the boy give when he claims that the girl is "sometimes really smart" (196)?
4. What commonalities does the boy find between the careers of the man and the woman?
5. For what length of time has the family been driving when the boy asks the woman to play a David Bowie song in the car?
6. What does the airplane symbolize within the Virginia Woolf epigraph at the start of Family Soundscapes: "Box IV"?
7. How does the boy answer the woman's queries about the procedures he would follow if he and the girl ever became lost? What is the woman's reaction to the boy's answer?
8. 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?
9. How does the fictional author of Elegies for Lost Children demonstrate the way in which the "man in charge" (164) despises being asked questions?
10. Discuss how the boy's reunion with the girl comes about after their separation and include discussion of the boy's reaction to their reunion.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by Luiselli in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Lost Children Archive. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Luiselli’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
How is the motif of sound included within Lost Children Archive and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Luiselli’s focus on the plight of refugee children depicted in Lost Children Archive. What message is Luiselli sending about this social issue?
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