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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Paradise Lost.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Anna Karenina.

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

3. What is the subject of the sound documentary the woman begins creating after finishing the language project?
(a) Appropriation.
(b) Rape.
(c) Child refugees.
(d) Santeria.

4. The man and the woman had first met while working on a project involving which of the five senses?
(a) Touch.
(b) Sight.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Smell.

5. On the way to Lawton, the man and woman promise the boy and girl a visit to what location?
(a) An amusement park.
(b) The UFO museum.
(c) A basketball court.
(d) A swimming pool.

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

7. For how many years have the man and the woman at the center of the narrative known one another?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 1 years.

8. Whose tomb does the family visit just outside of Lawton?
(a) Geronimo's.
(b) Lozen's.
(c) Chief Cochise's.
(d) Sacajawea's.

9. To what kind of establishment does the woman walk the night she ends up in a flirtatious encounter with a stranger?
(a) A bar.
(b) A bowling alley.
(c) A bookstore.
(d) A roller skating rink.

10. 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?
(a) A curb.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A bucket of water.
(d) A wall.

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

12. 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 sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

13. From what state does the family at the center of the narrative depart at the beginning of the novel?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Puebla.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whose belief that the road trip is moving too slowly results in a quicker pace from then on?

4. The woman tells the reader that the man no longer looks "very often" (43) at what part of her body?

5. What make of car does the family buy for the road trip?

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