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

2. How many girls are under the supervision of the coyote at the start of the journey in Elegies for Lost Children?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

3. What object does the boy throw off the cliff as part of his plan to break the silence cast upon the meal by the man and the woman?
(a) A branch.
(b) A popsicle.
(c) A hat.
(d) A shoe.

4. After the boy and girl part company with the rancher riding a tractor, they immediately run to take what action?
(a) To take inventory of their backpacks.
(b) To retrieve their hidden food.
(c) To write a journal entry.
(d) To take a drink of water.

5. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes says that he and the girl are going to look for the "lost" (238) what?
(a) Women.
(b) Girls.
(c) Boys.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Bosavi people believe that the only sounds that constitute "the voice of memory and the resonance of ancestry" (98) are made by what creatures?

2. Along what sort of pathway do the boy and the girl walk as they gradually begin to realize that they are lost?

3. What two items does the boy retrieve from the glove compartment of the family car on the night he sneaks out to get a book?

4. 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?

5. What is the woman's answer when the boy asks her what she had liked to do at age ten?

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