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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The man tells the woman one day that his new project will call for him to relocate "more permanently" (20) to what part of the United States?
(a) The midwest.
(b) The northeast.
(c) The northwest.
(d) The southwest.

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

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

5. What word does the woman say is currently used as "a euphemism for 'deportation'" (132)?
(a) Repentance.
(b) Regression.
(c) Repast.
(d) Removal.

6. When the boy discovers that a Polaroid picture will not develop properly in the light, what object does he use to protect his photos?
(a) A box of tissues.
(b) A paper bag.
(c) A box.
(d) A book.

7. After Manuela asks the woman to translate a series of documents, she asks her to meet with whom?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A congresswoman.

8. In what type of dwelling had the man, woman, boy, and girl first lived together?
(a) A house.
(b) An apartment.
(c) An immigration detention facility.
(d) A commune.

9. How many daughters does Manuela have?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

10. What gift does the woman give to the boy on his birthday?
(a) A Swiss army knife.
(b) A lomography camera.
(c) A Polaroid camera.
(d) A typewriter.

11. The boy and girl are said to listen to the man "most attentively" (44) when he talks about which historical figure?
(a) Chief Cochise.
(b) General Custer.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Geronimo.

12. The woman remarks that whenever the family listens to the radio during their road trip, she tries to find news about "the situation" (39) at what location?
(a) The southern border of the United States.
(b) The White House.
(c) The tip of the Northern Triangle.
(d) A particular detention center in Texas.

13. 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) Birds.
(b) Insects.
(c) Whales.
(d) Cats.

14. Each member of the family buys something when the family ventures into what kind of store during their road trip?
(a) A shoe store.
(b) A bookstore.
(c) A bakery.
(d) A clothing store.

15. What past tense verb does the woman use to describe the action she and the man had taken in relation to language for their long-term collaborative project?
(a) Heard.
(b) Sampled.
(c) Spoke.
(d) Transcribed.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the road trip, the girl develops an obsession with a book called "The Book with No" (99) what?

2. Manuela reports to the woman that her two daughters have disappeared somewhere between two detention centers in what states?

3. Whenever the woman turns on the radio in the family car, the first line of what novel is heard before anything else?

4. In answer to the boy's query, the woman says that "documenting just means to collect the present for" (102) what?

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

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