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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 dance.
(b) They sit down.
(c) They clap.
(d) They wave goodbye.

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

3. Which member of the family is named as having "arranged all the chaos around" the family "into a world" (184)?
(a) The man.
(b) The girl.
(c) The boy.
(d) The woman.

4. What sort of body of water is contained in the part of Elegies for Lost Children that the woman reads to the boy?
(a) A bay.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A river.
(d) A lake.

5. 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) The man in charge.
(c) An eagle.
(d) The conductor.

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

7. 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 book called The Elegies of Lost Children.
(b) The large map.
(c) The pair of binoculars.
(d) The sound recorder.

8. 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 dirt road.
(d) A migratory trail.

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

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

11. The woman remarks that while the man is driving, if she asks him what he is thinking about, he "usually" (156) replies with what word?
(a) The kids.
(b) Everything.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sound.

12. The boy wishes that instead of giving the photograph to the man, he had kept it for which character?
(a) Himself.
(b) The woman.
(c) Manuela.
(d) The girl.

13. 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) Juliet Cafe.
(c) Dixie's Cafe.
(d) Billie's Cafe.

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

15. To whom does Box IV belong?
(a) The man.
(b) The girl.
(c) The woman.
(d) The boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The woman recalls that she had been how old when her mother had left the family to "join a guerilla movement" (172)?

3. What word spoken by the girl does the boy use as an example of the girl's intermittent brilliance?

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

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

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