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

2. The woman recalls that she had been how old when her mother had left the family to "join a guerilla movement" (172)?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

3. As the family crosses Memphis, they play the song entitled "Graceland" by what musician?
(a) Sting.
(b) Carlos Santana.
(c) Paul Simon.
(d) Johnny Cash.

4. Which object that the boy puts into his backpack as he prepares for the trek into the desert does not belong to the woman?
(a) The large map.
(b) The book called The Elegies of Lost Children.
(c) The sound recorder.
(d) The pair of binoculars.

5. Once the narrative perspective shifts away from the woman, to whom does the narrative voice transfer?
(a) The boy.
(b) The girl.
(c) Manuela.
(d) The man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the boy and girl related to the man and the woman with whom they are traveling?

2. In what part of Mexico had the woman's mother joined a guerilla movement after leaving her family?

3. The woman believes that her voice as a mother needs to serve "as a" (160) what to her children's worlds?

4. What past tense verb does the woman use to indicate what happened to the girl's biological father?

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

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