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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Apacheria: "Dust Valleys" - Lost Children Archive: "Box IV" - "Box VII".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of the sound documentary the woman begins creating after finishing the language project?
(a) Rape.
(b) Child refugees.
(c) Appropriation.
(d) Santeria.

2. When the boy says that when he is older his hobby will be to "document things," (233) he says that he will be a what?
(a) A documentarianist.
(b) A documentist.
(c) A documentarist.
(d) A documentarian.

3. As the boy and the girl travel toward Echo Canyon, they are walking in which direction "into the heart of light" (316)?
(a) West.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) North.

4. Who helps with the creation of the materials that end up inside of the banker's box labeled Box VI?
(a) The boy.
(b) The girl.
(c) The woman.
(d) The man.

5. What animal does the boy hope will appear in the photograph he takes at the Baltimore aquarium?
(a) An octopus.
(b) A fish.
(c) A starfish.
(d) A turtle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prickly pears do the boy and girl devour when they find them along their journey through the desert on their way to Echo Canyon?

2. The boy and girl slowly make their way out of the diner while singing what David Bowie song that is also playing on the jukebox?

3. When the woman agrees to read to the boy from Elegies for Lost Children, how many chapters does she agree to read aloud?

4. What term does a customer at the Dixie Cafe use to refer to the family at the center of the narrative?

5. What past tense verb does the woman use to indicate what happened to the girl's biological father?

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