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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the girl upon the narrative's opening?
(a) 5.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

2. The woman recalls attending a vigil outside of what kind of establishment a few months before the road trip?
(a) A library.
(b) A detention center.
(c) A courthouse.
(d) A prison.

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

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

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

6. How are the boy and girl related to the man and the woman with whom they are traveling?
(a) The girl and boy are the biological children of the man.
(b) The girl and boy are the children of family friends.
(c) The girl and boy are the niece and nephew of the man and woman.
(d) The girl is the woman's biological daughter and the boy is the man's biological son.

7. 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) Birds.
(c) Cats.
(d) Whales.

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

9. In answer to the boy's query, the woman says that "documenting just means to collect the present for" (102) what?
(a) Posterity.
(b) The future.
(c) Later generations.
(d) The pleasure of organization.

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. The woman muses at one point that what element, when "real and sustained" (82) is hard to achieve within marriage?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Affection.
(c) Respect.
(d) Generosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. The immigration detention center in New Mexico to which Manuela's daughters are transferred had formerly been what kind of building?

5. Each member of the family buys something when the family ventures into what kind of store during their road trip?

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