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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reenactment: "Maps and Boxes" - "Lost".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the seventh elegy of the book Elegies of Lost Children, the group of children are told that they must wait how many days before the next train comes?
(a) 5-7.
(b) 9-10.
(c) 2-4.
(d) 1-2.

3. After the woman's mother had gone to join a guerilla movement, how much time passed before the woman saw her mother again?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 2 years.

4. Which member of the family ends up with the warrior name of Memphis?
(a) The man.
(b) The boy.
(c) The woman.
(d) The girl.

5. The woman recalls that she had been how old when her mother had left the family to "join a guerilla movement" (172)?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Each member of the family buys something when the family ventures into what kind of store during their road trip?

2. The woman believes that her voice as a mother needs to serve "as a" (160) what to her children's worlds?

3. The woman compares a documentarian to what other career position?

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?

5. What two items does the boy retrieve from the glove compartment of the family car on the night he sneaks out to get a book?

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