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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. One of the objects contained within Box VII features an image of a city limits sign for what town?
(a) Geronimo.
(b) Lordsburg.
(c) Custer.
(d) Tucson.

2. When the plane has been loaded with children and begins to move, what action do the immigration officers take that angers the woman?
(a) They clap.
(b) They wave goodbye.
(c) They sit down.
(d) They dance.

3. What past tense verb does the woman use to indicate what happened to the girl's biological father?
(a) Disappeared.
(b) Divorced.
(c) Died.
(d) Committed.

4. In the eighth elegy of the book Elegies for Lost Children, it is revealed that the boys in the group are allowed to relieve themselves a maximum of how many times per day while riding atop the train?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

5. The boy regrets giving a photograph of which character to the man as a present?
(a) The girl.
(b) The boy.
(c) The woman.
(d) The man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word spoken by the girl does the boy use as an example of the girl's intermittent brilliance?

2. What term does the boy use to describe the things he had "invented and perfected way before" (204) the family's road trip?

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

4. The boy makes one final recording for the girl, saying that it is because he knows that what event will occur at sunrise?

5. 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?

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