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

2. After the boy and girl part company with the rancher riding a tractor, they immediately run to take what action?
(a) To retrieve their hidden food.
(b) To write a journal entry.
(c) To take inventory of their backpacks.
(d) To take a drink of water.

3. What is the only object the boy packs inside of the girl's backpack before he takes her on a trek into the desert?
(a) A bottle of water.
(b) A map.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A book.

4. When the boy describes eating "a real breakfast in a diner" (218) the reader is meant to recognize which location that was also described earlier in the narrative by the woman?
(a) Dixie's Cafe.
(b) Juliet Cafe.
(c) Aroma Cafe.
(d) Billie's Cafe.

5. After the woman's mother had gone to join a guerilla movement, how much time passed before the woman saw her mother again?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 2 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman realizes at one point that the boy and girl use the term "lost children" (74) to refer to whom?

2. Whose narrative voice is represented when Part III: Apacheria opens?

3. In which elegy contained in the little red book entitled Elegies for Lost Children do the child refugees play a game with a broken telephone?

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

5. The vigil described by the woman had involved the attendees placing their hands on what object as they say the names of missing family members?

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