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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 reflects upon the fact that "it takes clarity of mind and humility of heart" to understand that children can read and understand what text?
(a) Paradise Lost.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Anna Karenina.

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

3. What term does a customer at the Dixie Cafe use to refer to the family at the center of the narrative?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Brown.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) Migrants.

4. The boy says that when the man gets in one of his melancholy moods, he never takes what action?
(a) He never stops clenching his teeth.
(b) He never smiles.
(c) He never looks at his wife.
(d) He never looks at the children.

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?
(a) Billie's Cafe.
(b) Dixie's Cafe.
(c) Juliet Cafe.
(d) Aroma Cafe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarian" (98)?

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

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

4. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes says that he and the girl are going to look for the "lost" (238) what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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