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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Manuela originally asks the woman to help her prevent her daughters from what fate?
(a) From being physically abused.
(b) From being kidnapped.
(c) From being arrested.
(d) From being deported.

2. 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) Spoke.
(b) Heard.
(c) Transcribed.
(d) Sampled.

3. The woman's story about her parents traveling to India revolves around what object?
(a) A CD player.
(b) A tape player.
(c) A turntable.
(d) A candle.

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

5. Whenever the woman turns on the radio in the family car, the first line of what novel is heard before anything else?
(a) The Road.
(b) A Clockwork Orange.
(c) Lord of the Flies.
(d) The Bean Trees.

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

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

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

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

10. The child refugee's radio interview reveals that which of his family members had died along the journey to the United States?
(a) His brother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

11. The immigration detention center in New Mexico to which Manuela's daughters are transferred had formerly been what kind of building?
(a) A library.
(b) A Target.
(c) A strip mall.
(d) A Walmart.

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

13. What country is NOT considered a part of the Northern Triangle?
(a) Honduras.
(b) Guatemala.
(c) El Salvador.
(d) Venezuela.

14. After the man and woman are finished with their language project, the man takes on a project about what Native tribe?
(a) Iroquois.
(b) Osage.
(c) Comanche.
(d) Apache.

15. 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 northwest.
(b) The northeast.
(c) The southwest.
(d) The midwest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The archival studies specialist to whom the woman turns for support is a professor at which university?

3. From what state does the family at the center of the narrative depart at the beginning of the novel?

4. When the man and woman first got together, they had seized upon what form as a manifesto for their relationship?

5. How old is the boy upon the narrative's opening?

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