Lost Children Archive Test | Final Test - Easy

Valeria Luiselli
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 192 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lost Children Archive Test | Final Test - Easy

Valeria Luiselli
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 192 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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) Scaffolding.
(c) Pipeline.
(d) Ladder.

2. To whom does the banker's box belong that the boy retrieves from the trunk of the family car one night?
(a) The woman.
(b) The man.
(c) The boy.
(d) The girl.

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

4. While making a statement about marginalization, the man compares the United States to "an enormous" (212) what?
(a) Party.
(b) Prison.
(c) Game of dodgeball.
(d) Cemetery.

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

6. 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.

7. When the plane has been loaded with children and begins to move, what action do the immigration officers take that angers the woman?
(a) They sit down.
(b) They clap.
(c) They wave goodbye.
(d) They dance.

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

9. What piece of information does the woman ask the boy to recite upon demand?
(a) The girl's blood type.
(b) The phone numbers of the man and the woman.
(c) The family's address in New York City.
(d) His social security number.

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

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

12. Once the narrative perspective shifts away from the woman, to whom does the narrative voice transfer?
(a) The girl.
(b) Manuela.
(c) The man.
(d) The boy.

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 cowpath.
(b) A switchback.
(c) A migratory trail.
(d) A dirt road.

14. In what way does the boy document his and the girl's encounter with the rancher on the tractor?
(a) He records the sound of the rancher's voice.
(b) He writes a journal entry about the rancher.
(c) He takes a photograph of the rancher and the girl.
(d) He takes a photograph of the rancher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT something to which the woman has been accustomed within the confines of the car during the road trip?

2. What is the only object the boy packs inside of the girl's backpack before he takes her on a trek into the desert?

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

4. What two items does the boy retrieve from the glove compartment of the family car on the night he sneaks out to get a book?

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

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