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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Family Soundscapes: "Undocumented" - "Missing".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarist" (98)?
(a) The girl.
(b) The man.
(c) The woman.
(d) The boy.

2. Whose belief that the road trip is moving too slowly results in a quicker pace from then on?
(a) The man.
(b) The boy.
(c) The woman.
(d) The girl.

3. When the man and woman first got together, they had seized upon what form as a manifesto for their relationship?
(a) Dance.
(b) Prose.
(c) Soundscape.
(d) Poetry.

4. The woman reflects upon the fact that "it takes clarity of mind and humility of heart" to understand that children can read and understand what text?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Paradise Lost.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Anna Karenina.

5. Whenever the woman turns on the radio in the family car, the first line of what novel is heard before anything else?
(a) The Bean Trees.
(b) Lord of the Flies.
(c) A Clockwork Orange.
(d) The Road.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The woman's story about her parents traveling to India revolves around what object?

4. What country is NOT considered a part of the Northern Triangle?

5. 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?

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