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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many weeks have passed since the trip's beginning when Manuela calls the woman again?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. What emotion does the woman say that the boy "normally represses" (37)?
(a) Enthusiasm.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Boredom.

3. The archival studies specialist to whom the woman turns for support is a professor at which university?
(a) Yale.
(b) Dartmouth.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Columbia.

4. Manuela reports to the woman that her two daughters have disappeared somewhere between two detention centers in what states?
(a) New Mexico and Arizona.
(b) California and Arizona.
(c) Texas and Arizona.
(d) New Mexico and Texas.

5. The woman tells the reader that the man no longer looks "very often" (43) at what part of her body?
(a) Her legs.
(b) Her waist.
(c) Her eyes.
(d) Her neck.

6. The child refugee's interview on the radio reveals that La Bestia is what type of object?
(a) A plane.
(b) A river.
(c) A boat.
(d) A train.

7. When the family reaches a motel modeled after Elvis's persona, which member of the family has enthusiasm that proves to be contagious?
(a) The girl.
(b) The man.
(c) The boy.
(d) The woman.

8. The woman recalls that when she had been three months' pregnant with the girl, she had visited which of her family members in Chicago?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

9. In what state had the man and the woman first met?
(a) New York.
(b) Utah.
(c) California.
(d) Arizona.

10. Into what part of Manuela's daughters' dresses does their grandmother sew Manuela's phone number?
(a) The yokes.
(b) The linings.
(c) The collars.
(d) The sleeves.

11. Which member of the family at the narrative's center identifies as a "documentarian" (98)?
(a) The girl.
(b) The man.
(c) The boy.
(d) The woman.

12. 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?
(a) Insects.
(b) Cats.
(c) Whales.
(d) Birds.

13. The woman compares a documentarian to what other career position?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A fortuneteller.
(c) A librarian.
(d) A librarian.

14. Which member of the family ends up with the warrior name of Swift Feather?
(a) The man.
(b) The girl.
(c) The woman.
(d) The boy.

15. What term does a customer at the Dixie Cafe use to refer to the family at the center of the narrative?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Migrants.
(c) Brown.
(d) Foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many languages does the woman say are spoken in New York City?

2. What gift does the woman give to the boy on his birthday?

3. Which member of the family ends up with the warrior name of Lucky Arrow?

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

5. The woman reflects upon the fact that "it takes clarity of mind and humility of heart" to understand that children can read and understand what text?

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