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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Apacheria: "Dust Valleys" - Lost Children Archive: "Box IV" - "Box VII".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman claims that "At night, fear belongs to" (157) whom?
(a) The lonely.
(b) Adults.
(c) Children.
(d) The dead.

2. Within which elegy in the Elegies for Lost Children book does the oldest boy give the other children their "warrior names" (313)?
(a) The twenieth.
(b) The fifteenth.
(c) The eleventh.
(d) The sixth.

3. What promise does the girl extract from the boy just before she says, "Swift Feather, I like being with you and want to always be with you, okay" (332)?
(a) To take her to Echo Canyon the following day.
(b) That she will get to drink water the following day.
(c) That he will never forget her.
(d) That they will live to see the man and woman again.

4. The boy recalls the man having once told a story about a little girl in Siberia whose life had been saved against all odds by what kind of animal?
(a) A dog.
(b) A wolf.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A bear.

5. Whenever the woman turns on the radio in the family car, the first line of what novel is heard before anything else?
(a) A Clockwork Orange.
(b) The Bean Trees.
(c) Lord of the Flies.
(d) The Road.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a conversation with the boy, the woman claims that which book is "about human nature" (161)?

2. Manuela originally asks the woman to help her prevent her daughters from what fate?

3. When the family reaches a motel modeled after Elvis's persona, which member of the family has enthusiasm that proves to be contagious?

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?

5. The youngest child in the group of child refugees in Elegies for Lost Children calls his fellow travelers by what title?

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