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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. When the plane has been loaded with children and begins to move, what action do the immigration officers take that angers the woman?
(a) They sit down.
(b) They clap.
(c) They wave goodbye.
(d) They dance.

2. The archival studies specialist to whom the woman turns for support is a professor at which university?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Dartmouth.

3. 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) The tip of the Northern Triangle.
(b) A particular detention center in Texas.
(c) The southern border of the United States.
(d) The White House.

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

5. In what stage of life was the boy when his biological mother died?
(a) Infancy.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) Prepubescence.
(d) Early childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Once the family has decided to travel toward the airport near Roswell, for how many weeks have they been driving?

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

4. The boy uses information from his pediatrician to determine that children usually do not retain memories made before what age?

5. After the man and woman are finished with their language project, the man takes on a project about what Native tribe?

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