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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which object that the boy puts into his backpack as he prepares for the trek into the desert does not belong to the woman?
(a) The pair of binoculars.
(b) The sound recorder.
(c) The large map.
(d) The book called The Elegies of Lost Children.

3. The woman recalls that she had been how old when her mother had left the family to "join a guerilla movement" (172)?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

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

5. 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 Laurel Canyon.
(b) In New York City.
(c) In Benedict Canyon.
(d) In Echo Canyon.

6. The man tells the woman that after the death of the boy's biological mother, he frequently struggled with what?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) Balance.
(c) Malnutrition.
(d) Nightmares.

7. After the woman's mother had gone to join a guerilla movement, how much time passed before the woman saw her mother again?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 5 years.

8. When the boy describes eating "a real breakfast in a diner" (218) the reader is meant to recognize which location that was also described earlier in the narrative by the woman?
(a) Aroma Cafe.
(b) Billie's Cafe.
(c) Dixie's Cafe.
(d) Juliet Cafe.

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

10. How does the rest of the family react when the boy throws an object off the cliff in hopes of breaking the tense silence at lunch on the day of the hike?
(a) They grab the boy.
(b) They smile.
(c) They walk away.
(d) They scream.

11. In what part of Mexico had the woman's mother joined a guerilla movement after leaving her family?
(a) Western.
(b) Northern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Southern.

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

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

14. 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) An eagle.
(b) A dog.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A bear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The coyote threatens the children under his supervision with violence after one of children commits what transgression?

3. By what name does the boy continue to call the girl throughout the narrative once the name is chosen?

4. The girl tells the boy that if they ever got lost together in the forest "with a dog only" (218) she would stand next to the boy for what purpose?

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

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