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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which member of the family ends up with the warrior name of Swift Feather?
(a) The boy.
(b) The girl.
(c) The man.
(d) The woman.

2. What term does a customer at the Dixie Cafe use to refer to the family at the center of the narrative?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Brown.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) Migrants.

3. The woman recalls that when she had been three months' pregnant with the girl, she had visited which of her family members in Chicago?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her father.

4. What past tense verb does the woman use to describe the action she and the man had taken in relation to language for their long-term collaborative project?
(a) Heard.
(b) Transcribed.
(c) Spoke.
(d) Sampled.

5. What country is NOT considered a part of the Northern Triangle?
(a) Guatemala.
(b) El Salvador.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Honduras.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the boy hope will appear in the photograph he takes at the Baltimore aquarium?

2. How many archiving boxes does the family take with them on their road trip?

3. After the man and woman are finished with their language project, the man takes on a project about what Native tribe?

4. The woman muses at one point that what element, when "real and sustained" (82) is hard to achieve within marriage?

5. On the way to Lawton, the man and woman promise the boy and girl a visit to what location?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the woman is conflicted about whether to record the sounds of the family's road trip, what does she say she wishes she could do instead?

2. How does the woman define documentation for the boy?

3. Describe the circumstances that led to the formation of the family at the center of Lost Children Archive.

4. Describe an instance when the girl's vivacious personality influences the rest of the family's behavior.

5. What prompts the woman to begin to record the man's Apache stories as he tells them?

6. For what purpose does the family plan to travel to Lawton?

7. Discuss one of the quotes Luiselli uses as an epigraph within Part I: Soundscapes and how its themes are reflected within the first few passages of the novel.

8. How is the road trip from New York to Arizona a symbol of the family's imminent separation?

9. While the man wants the road trip to end in Arizona, the woman wants to visit what state so that she can pursue her own next project?

10. How does the man reply when the boy asks him why he has chosen the Apache tribe as the subject of his newest project?

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