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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. What word spoken by the girl does the boy use as an example of the girl's intermittent brilliance?
(a) Future.
(b) Relatively.
(c) Haunted.
(d) Fret.

2. The man tells the woman that after the death of the boy's biological mother, he frequently struggled with what?
(a) Balance.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Nightmares.

3. From what state does the family at the center of the narrative depart at the beginning of the novel?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Puebla.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

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

5. At what airport does the family watch a group of children being put onto a plane that will enact their deportation?
(a) Santa Fe.
(b) Artesia.
(c) Arlington.
(d) Stapleton.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman muses at one point that what element, when "real and sustained" (82) is hard to achieve within marriage?

2. Whose belief that the road trip is moving too slowly results in a quicker pace from then on?

3. What color is the book entitled Elegies for Lost Children?

4. The archival studies specialist to whom the woman turns for support is a professor at which university?

5. The girl becomes obsessed with the fact that which historical figure had died after falling off his horse?

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