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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 1-2.
(b) 9-10.
(c) 5-7.
(d) 2-4.

2. The woman claims that fear "in the daytime, under the sun" (157) belongs to whom?
(a) The living.
(b) Adults.
(c) Children.
(d) The lonely.

3. 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?
(a) In Benedict Canyon.
(b) In New York City.
(c) In Echo Canyon.
(d) In Laurel Canyon.

4. 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) Finger-maps.
(c) Nap-clouds.
(d) Hand-traps.

5. How many children at the train yard dedicate their time to caring for the refugee children's damaged feet?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

6. 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.

7. How many children does the cashier say will be deported from an airport near Roswell the following day?
(a) Scores.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Dozens.

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

9. 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) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 11.

10. The coyote threatens the children under his supervision with violence after one of children commits what transgression?
(a) Asks a question.
(b) Cries.
(c) Lies.
(d) Falls behind.

11. As stated in the eighth elegy, the presence of what creature is the only thing that makes the girls in Elegies for Lost Children feel safe as they are crouched between train cars relieving themselves?
(a) The conductor.
(b) The man in charge.
(c) One of the boys in their group.
(d) An eagle.

12. 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 shoe.
(b) A popsicle.
(c) A branch.
(d) A hat.

13. Along what sort of pathway do the boy and the girl walk as they gradually begin to realize that they are lost?
(a) A migratory trail.
(b) A cowpath.
(c) A dirt road.
(d) A switchback.

14. The woman claims that "At night, fear belongs to" (157) whom?
(a) The lonely.
(b) Children.
(c) The dead.
(d) Adults.

15. 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) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does the family count as they walk out to the plane to be deported?

2. The boy wishes that instead of giving the photograph to the man, he had kept it for which character?

3. The boy regrets giving a photograph of which character to the man as a present?

4. The epigraph by Virginia Woolf introducing Box IV mentions which vehicle of transportation?

5. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes says that he and the girl are going to look for the "lost" (238) what?

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