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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. In what type of dwelling had the man, woman, boy, and girl first lived together?
(a) A house.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A commune.
(d) An immigration detention facility.

2. How old is the boy upon the narrative's opening?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

3. In a conversation with the boy, the woman claims that which book is "about human nature" (161)?
(a) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(b) Lord of the Flies.
(c) Wild Fang.
(d) A Clockwork Orange.

4. The woman remarks that whenever the family listens to the radio during their road trip, she tries to find news about "the situation" (39) at what location?
(a) A particular detention center in Texas.
(b) The southern border of the United States.
(c) The White House.
(d) The tip of the Northern Triangle.

5. When the woman agrees to read to the boy from Elegies for Lost Children, how many chapters does she agree to read aloud?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The woman states that in the past "six or seven months" (18) over how many undocumented children from Mexico and the Northern Triangle had been detained at the southern U.S. border?

3. How many maps are contained within Box IV?

4. After Manuela asks the woman to translate a series of documents, she asks her to meet with whom?

5. In what stage of life was the boy when his biological mother died?

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