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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Family Soundscapes: "Box IV" - Reenactment: "Deportations".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The man tells the woman one day that his new project will call for him to relocate "more permanently" (20) to what part of the United States?
(a) The midwest.
(b) The northwest.
(c) The northeast.
(d) The southwest.

2. How many weeks have passed since the trip's beginning when Manuela calls the woman again?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

3. The epigraph by Virginia Woolf introducing Box IV mentions which vehicle of transportation?
(a) A train.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A coal cart.
(d) An airplane.

4. The woman muses at one point that what element, when "real and sustained" (82) is hard to achieve within marriage?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Respect.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Affection.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what state does the family at the center of the narrative depart at the beginning of the novel?

2. What past tense verb does the woman use to describe the action she and the man had taken in relation to language for their long-term collaborative project?

3. The family is pulled over for what kind of traffic violation at one point early in their road trip?

4. Toward what state does the family set out at the start of the narrative?

5. For how many years have the man and the woman at the center of the narrative known one another?

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