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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. With what Roman numeral is the box marked that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?
(a) III.
(b) VII.
(c) V.
(d) II.

2. During the road trip, the girl develops an obsession with a book called "The Book with No" (99) what?
(a) Swear words.
(b) Ending.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Cover.

3. In the seventh elegy of the book Elegies of Lost Children, the group of children are told that they must wait how many days before the next train comes?
(a) 2-4.
(b) 9-10.
(c) 5-7.
(d) 1-2.

4. When the boy sneaks out of his and the girl's bedroom one night, it is because he wants to read more of which book?
(a) The Elegies of Lost Children.
(b) East of Eden.
(c) Lord of the Flies.
(d) The Road.

5. After Manuela asks the woman to translate a series of documents, she asks her to meet with whom?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A congresswoman.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. As stated in the eighth elegy, the presence of what creature is the only thing that makes the girls in Elegies for Lost Children feel safe as they are crouched between train cars relieving themselves?

2. How many daughters does Manuela have?

3. 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?

4. How old is the girl upon the narrative's opening?

5. What word does the woman say is currently used as "a euphemism for 'deportation'" (132)?

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