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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term does the boy use to describe the things he had "invented and perfected way before" (204) the family's road trip?
(a) Arrow-maps.
(b) Nap-clouds.
(c) Finger-maps.
(d) Hand-traps.

3. The boy uses information from his pediatrician to determine that children usually do not retain memories made before what age?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

4. 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 woman.
(c) The man.
(d) The boy.

5. The epigraph by Virginia Woolf introducing Box IV mentions which vehicle of transportation?
(a) A coal cart.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A train.

6. The boy says that when the man gets in one of his melancholy moods, he never takes what action?
(a) He never stops clenching his teeth.
(b) He never looks at the children.
(c) He never smiles.
(d) He never looks at his wife.

7. In the eighth elegy of the book Elegies for Lost Children, it is revealed that the boys in the group are allowed to relieve themselves a maximum of how many times per day while riding atop the train?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

8. The coyote in Elegies for Lost Children begins with how many children under his supervision on their way to the United States?
(a) 6.
(b) 11.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

9. What term does the girl use to refer to the boy after he describes how an echo works?
(a) Magician.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Mr. Wizard.
(d) Liar.

10. When the boy considers whether the black birds above may be forming arrows, he decides that only what type of bird "can be trusted" (264)?
(a) A falcon.
(b) A raven.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A magpie.

11. 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 fence.
(b) A trash can.
(c) A truck.
(d) A fire hydrant.

12. The boy regrets giving a photograph of which character to the man as a present?
(a) The woman.
(b) The man.
(c) The girl.
(d) The boy.

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

14. On what type of document does the boy draw the route he and the girl plan to take as they set out in search of lost people?
(a) A map.
(b) A court summons.
(c) A newspaper clipping.
(d) A parking ticket.

15. What object does the boy throw off the cliff as part of his plan to break the silence cast upon the meal by the man and the woman?
(a) A hat.
(b) A shoe.
(c) A popsicle.
(d) A branch.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the woman wants to know what the boy would do if he and the girl became lost, he answers that he would look for the man and the woman in what location?

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

3. Once the narrative perspective shifts away from the woman, to whom does the narrative voice transfer?

4. When the boy sneaks out of his and the girl's bedroom one night, it is because he wants to read more of which book?

5. When the woman finds fault with the boy's answer about what he would do if he and the girl became lost, what does she say is the right answer?

(see the answer keys)

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