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

2. Whenever the woman turns on the radio in the family car, the first line of what novel is heard before anything else?
(a) The Road.
(b) Lord of the Flies.
(c) The Bean Trees.
(d) A Clockwork Orange.

3. The woman realizes at one point that the boy and girl use the term "lost children" (74) to refer to whom?
(a) Cousins.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Child refugees.
(d) Trafficked children.

4. As stated in the eighth elegy, the presence of what creature is the only thing that makes the girls in Elegies for Lost Children feel safe as they are crouched between train cars relieving themselves?
(a) The conductor.
(b) An eagle.
(c) The man in charge.
(d) One of the boys in their group.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman's story about her parents traveling to India revolves around what object?

2. The child refugee's interview on the radio reveals that La Bestia is what type of object?

3. Which member of the family is named as having "arranged all the chaos around" the family "into a world" (184)?

4. How many weeks have passed since the trip's beginning when Manuela calls the woman again?

5. When the boy discovers that a Polaroid picture will not develop properly in the light, what object does he use to protect his photos?

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