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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 man.
(c) The girl.
(d) The boy.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

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

10. 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.

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

12. In a conversation with the boy, the woman claims that which book is "about human nature" (161)?
(a) Lord of the Flies.
(b) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(c) A Clockwork Orange.
(d) Wild Fang.

13. At what airport does the family watch a group of children being put onto a plane that will enact their deportation?
(a) Stapleton.
(b) Artesia.
(c) Santa Fe.
(d) Arlington.

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

15. 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) Playing hopscotch.
(c) Kissing boys.
(d) Climbing trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece of information does the woman ask the boy to recite upon demand?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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