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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Echo Canyon.
(b) Steed Canyon.
(c) Laurel Canyon.
(d) Buffalo Canyon.

3. What is NOT one of the water tanks the boy plans to pass along his planned route to a particular canyon?
(a) Willow Tank.
(b) Still Tank.
(c) Echo Tank.
(d) Big Tank.

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

5. When the boy says that when he is older his hobby will be to "document things," (233) he says that he will be a what?
(a) A documentarian.
(b) A documentarianist.
(c) A documentist.
(d) A documentarist.

6. 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 trash can.
(c) A fire hydrant.
(d) A fence.

7. With what Roman numeral is the box marked that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?
(a) III.
(b) II.
(c) VII.
(d) V.

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

9. 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 smile.
(b) They walk away.
(c) They grab the boy.
(d) They scream.

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

11. 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 months.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 5 years.

12. 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 raven.
(b) A magpie.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A falcon.

13. 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) 6.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

14. 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?
(a) Lord of the Flies.
(b) The Road.
(c) The Elegies of Lost Children.
(d) East of Eden.

15. 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 his wife.
(c) He never looks at the children.
(d) He never smiles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the family is named as having "arranged all the chaos around" the family "into a world" (184)?

2. What term does the girl use to refer to the boy after he describes how an echo works?

3. How many girls are under the supervision of the coyote at the start of the journey in Elegies for Lost Children?

4. When the plane has been loaded with children and begins to move, what action do the immigration officers take that angers the woman?

5. When the woman agrees to read to the boy from Elegies for Lost Children, how many chapters does she agree to read aloud?

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