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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the plane has been loaded with children and begins to move, what action do the immigration officers take that angers the woman?
(a) They clap.
(b) They wave goodbye.
(c) They sit down.
(d) They dance.

2. From what town does the boy plan to hop aboard a train while in the company of the girl?
(a) Elko.
(b) Lordsburg.
(c) Ellis.
(d) Sugar Pine.

3. To whom does the banker's box belong that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?
(a) The girl.
(b) The boy.
(c) The woman.
(d) The man.

4. What is NOT something to which the woman has been accustomed within the confines of the car during the road trip?
(a) Billboards.
(b) Instant coffee.
(c) Intermittent silence.
(d) The family's smell.

5. At what airport does the family watch a group of children being put onto a plane that will enact their deportation?
(a) Arlington.
(b) Stapleton.
(c) Artesia.
(d) Santa Fe.

6. While making a statement about marginalization, the man compares the United States to "an enormous" (212) what?
(a) Cemetery.
(b) Party.
(c) Prison.
(d) Game of dodgeball.

7. In what stage of life was the boy when his biological mother died?
(a) Early childhood.
(b) Infancy.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) Prepubescence.

8. How many girls are under the supervision of the coyote at the start of the journey in Elegies for Lost Children?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

9. What object does the woman attack in anger when she sees the immigration officers take a certain action when the plane starts to move?
(a) A truck.
(b) A fire hydrant.
(c) A trash can.
(d) A fence.

10. How many children does the family count as they walk out to the plane to be deported?
(a) 10 or 15.
(b) 15 or 20.
(c) 30 or 40.
(d) 40 or 50.

11. The boy recalls the man having once told a story about a little girl in Siberia whose life had been saved against all odds by what kind of animal?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A bear.
(c) A dog.
(d) An eagle.

12. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes states that he and the girl will meet the man and woman in what location?
(a) Steed Canyon.
(b) Echo Canyon.
(c) Buffalo Canyon.
(d) Laurel Canyon.

13. The boy wishes that instead of giving the photograph to the man, he had kept it for which character?
(a) Himself.
(b) Manuela.
(c) The girl.
(d) The woman.

14. When the woman agrees to read to the boy from Elegies for Lost Children, how many chapters does she agree to read aloud?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

15. Once the family has decided to travel toward the airport near Roswell, for how many weeks have they been driving?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the water tanks the boy plans to pass along his planned route to a particular canyon?

2. How many maps are contained within Box IV?

3. What is the only object the boy packs inside of the girl's backpack before he takes her on a trek into the desert?

4. In what way does the boy document his and the girl's encounter with the rancher on the tractor?

5. In the seventh elegy of the book Elegies of Lost Children, the group of children are told that they must wait how many days before the next train comes?

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