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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A rebel.
(b) A young American.
(c) A hero.
(d) An astronaut.

2. The boy regrets giving a photograph of which character to the man as a present?
(a) The man.
(b) The boy.
(c) The girl.
(d) The woman.

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

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

5. At what kind of establishment has the family stopped when they hear about the imminent deportation of children?
(a) A motel.
(b) A bookstore.
(c) A cafe.
(d) A gas station.

6. 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) 2.
(d) 5.

7. The woman claims that "At night, fear belongs to" (157) whom?
(a) Children.
(b) The lonely.
(c) Adults.
(d) The dead.

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

9. 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?
(a) The road map and a Polaroid photograph.
(b) The road map and the recorder.
(c) The recorder and the drum.
(d) The clipboard and the road map.

10. From what town does the boy plan to hop aboard a train while in the company of the girl?
(a) Elko.
(b) Ellis.
(c) Sugar Pine.
(d) Lordsburg.

11. The boy says that when the man gets in one of his melancholy moods, he never takes what action?
(a) He never looks at his wife.
(b) He never stops clenching his teeth.
(c) He never smiles.
(d) He never looks at the children.

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

13. As stated in the eighth elegy, the presence of what creature is the only thing that makes the girls in Elegies for Lost Children feel safe as they are crouched between train cars relieving themselves?
(a) One of the boys in their group.
(b) An eagle.
(c) The man in charge.
(d) The conductor.

14. After the boy and girl part company with the rancher riding a tractor, they immediately run to take what action?
(a) To write a journal entry.
(b) To retrieve their hidden food.
(c) To take inventory of their backpacks.
(d) To take a drink of water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Along what sort of pathway do the boy and the girl walk as they gradually begin to realize that they are lost?

2. 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?

3. The note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes says that he and the girl are going to look for the "lost" (238) what?

4. 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)?

5. 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?

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