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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reenactment: "Maps and Boxes" - "Lost".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The boy and girl are said to listen to the man "most attentively" (44) when he talks about which historical figure?
(a) Geronimo.
(b) Chief Cochise.
(c) General Custer.
(d) Sitting Bull.

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

3. Toward what state does the family set out at the start of the narrative?
(a) Arizona.
(b) California.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Nevada.

4. From what town does the boy plan to hop aboard a train while in the company of the girl?
(a) Sugar Pine.
(b) Lordsburg.
(c) Ellis.
(d) Elko.

5. The boy wishes that instead of giving the photograph to the man, he had kept it for which character?
(a) The girl.
(b) Manuela.
(c) The woman.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of body of water is contained in the part of Elegies for Lost Children that the woman reads to the boy?

3. What animal does the boy hope will appear in the photograph he takes at the Baltimore aquarium?

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

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

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