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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman believes that her voice as a mother needs to serve "as a" (160) what to her children's worlds?
(a) Stumbling block.
(b) Ladder.
(c) Scaffolding.
(d) Pipeline.

2. To whom does Box IV belong?
(a) The woman.
(b) The girl.
(c) The man.
(d) The boy.

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

4. What is the woman's answer when the boy asks her what she had liked to do at age ten?
(a) Playing hopscotch.
(b) Climbing trees.
(c) Kissing boys.
(d) Exploring abandoned houses.

5. By what name does the boy continue to call the girl throughout the narrative once the name is chosen?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Mustang Sally.
(c) Belle.
(d) Pocahontas.

6. The woman remarks that while the man is driving, if she asks him what he is thinking about, he "usually" (156) replies with what word?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The kids.
(c) Sound.
(d) Everything.

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

8. Which member of the family is named as having "arranged all the chaos around" the family "into a world" (184)?
(a) The woman.
(b) The boy.
(c) The girl.
(d) The man.

9. 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 hat.
(c) A branch.
(d) A popsicle.

10. What word spoken by the girl does the boy use as an example of the girl's intermittent brilliance?
(a) Haunted.
(b) Future.
(c) Fret.
(d) Relatively.

11. On the family's way to the airport near Roswell, the boy requests a song about David Bowie that focuses on what kind of a person?
(a) An astronaut.
(b) A rebel.
(c) A hero.
(d) A young American.

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

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

14. The boy and girl slowly make their way out of the diner while singing what David Bowie song that is also playing on the jukebox?
(a) Changes.
(b) Space Oddity.
(c) Ziggy Stardust.
(d) Golden Years.

15. When the boy and girl encounter a man on a tractor while they are lost, the boy recognizes the man's name from what document?
(a) A map.
(b) A court summons.
(c) A gravestone.
(d) A birth certificate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of body of water is contained in the part of Elegies for Lost Children that the woman reads to the boy?

2. How many children at the train yard dedicate their time to caring for the refugee children's damaged feet?

3. The boy says that when the man gets in one of his melancholy moods, he never takes what action?

4. Once the family has decided to travel toward the airport near Roswell, for how many weeks have they been driving?

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

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