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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. The child refugee's radio interview reveals that which of his family members had died along the journey to the United States?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.

2. The woman compares a documentarian to what other career position?
(a) A fortuneteller.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A librarian.
(d) A librarian.

3. The family expects a "godforsaken little town" (82) and are surprised by the reality when they arrive in what city?
(a) Tulsa.
(b) Asheville.
(c) Tucson.
(d) Albuquerque.

4. With whom does the woman share news of trouble in her marriage before the family leaves for the road trip?
(a) Her mother.
(b) No one.
(c) A couple of friends.
(d) The boy and the girl.

5. In what type of dwelling had the man, woman, boy, and girl first lived together?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A house.
(c) An immigration detention facility.
(d) A commune.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the woman say is currently used as "a euphemism for 'deportation'" (132)?

2. The immigration detention center in New Mexico to which Manuela's daughters are transferred had formerly been what kind of building?

3. How old is the boy upon the narrative's opening?

4. The woman states that in the past "six or seven months" (18) over how many undocumented children from Mexico and the Northern Triangle had been detained at the southern U.S. border?

5. The archival studies specialist to whom the woman turns for support is a professor at which university?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the boy and girl call child refugees and what is the woman's reaction to their choice?

2. What warrior name does each member of the family take on and who begins the process?

3. For what purpose does the family at the center of the narrative bring bankers' boxes along on their road trip?

4. What sort of text is included within the man's Box III that is not included within the woman's box?

5. Describe the differences between the man's sound work and the woman's sound work.

6. 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?

7. What does the reader learn about La Bestia when the family listens to a radio interview with a child refugee?

8. In what way does Luiselli use the traditional notion of the American Dream to comment on the reasons refugees from the Northern Triangle leave their homes?

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

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

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