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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. To whom does the banker's box belong that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?
2. Once the family has decided to travel toward the airport near Roswell, for how many weeks have they been driving?
3. In what stage of life was the boy when his biological mother died?
4. What piece of information does the woman ask the boy to recite upon demand?
5. After the boy and girl part company with the rancher riding a tractor, they immediately run to take what action?
Short Essay Questions
1. What example does the boy give when he claims that the girl is "sometimes really smart" (196)?
2. 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)?
3. 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?
4. What items does the boy pack in preparation for the trek into the desert and eventually to Echo Canyon?
5. What clues does the boy leave for the man and woman in regard to his and the girl's plans?
6. What kind of animal does the boy wish for once he realizes that he and the girl are lost and why?
7. Which section of the fifth elegy causes the woman to stop reading to the boy?
8. 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?
9. What commonalities does the boy find between the careers of the man and the woman?
10. What does the reader learn by the end of Part I about the woman's own childhood?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Determine Luiselli’s message within the novel Lost Children Archive regarding the idea that the American media directly influences its citizens' thinking about the topic of immigration in manipulative and harmful ways.
Essay Topic 2
Write a critical essay about Lost Children Archive while using the critical power theory lens of Marxist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of issues such as socioeconomic status, hierarchies, wealth, class, or any other issues related to Marxist theory that can be found in the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Look carefully at the passages of Lost Children Archive that describe the close relationship between the boy and the girl at the center of the text. What is Luiselli’s purpose for discussing at length the nature of the connection between the boy and the girl?
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