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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. The woman recalls attending a vigil outside of what kind of establishment a few months before the road trip?
(a) A courthouse.
(b) A prison.
(c) A library.
(d) A detention center.

2. What term does the boy use to describe the things he had "invented and perfected way before" (204) the family's road trip?
(a) Arrow-maps.
(b) Nap-clouds.
(c) Hand-traps.
(d) Finger-maps.

3. The child refugee's radio interview reveals that which of his family members had died along the journey to the United States?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His brother.
(d) His aunt.

4. How old is the girl upon the narrative's opening?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

5. When the boy discovers that a Polaroid picture will not develop properly in the light, what object does he use to protect his photos?
(a) A box of tissues.
(b) A paper bag.
(c) A book.
(d) A box.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what kind of establishment does the woman walk the night she ends up in a flirtatious encounter with a stranger?

2. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarian" (98)?

3. The woman realizes at one point that the boy and girl use the term "lost children" (74) to refer to whom?

4. In what type of dwelling had the man, woman, boy, and girl first lived together?

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

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