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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 woman claims that fear "in the daytime, under the sun" (157) belongs to whom?
(a) The lonely.
(b) Adults.
(c) Children.
(d) The living.

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

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

4. The woman muses at one point that what element, when "real and sustained" (82) is hard to achieve within marriage?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Affection.
(d) Respect.

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

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

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

4. On the family's way to the airport near Roswell, the boy requests a song about David Bowie that focuses on what kind of a person?

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

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