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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 note the boy leaves inside one of the banker's boxes states that he and the girl will meet the man and woman in what location?
(a) Buffalo Canyon.
(b) Echo Canyon.
(c) Laurel Canyon.
(d) Steed Canyon.

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) A Clockwork Orange.
(c) Wild Fang.
(d) Lord of the Flies.

3. How many boys are under the supervision of the coyote at the start of the journey in Elegies for Lost Children?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. The coyote threatens the children under his supervision with violence after one of children commits what transgression?
(a) Falls behind.
(b) Asks a question.
(c) Lies.
(d) Cries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the boy says that when he is older his hobby will be to "document things," (233) he says that he will be a what?

2. To whom does Box IV belong?

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 what part of Mexico had the woman's mother joined a guerilla movement after leaving her family?

5. In what stage of life was the boy when his biological mother died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What clues does the boy leave for the man and woman in regard to his and the girl's plans?

2. For what length of time has the family been driving when the boy asks the woman to play a David Bowie song in the car?

3. What does the airplane symbolize within the Virginia Woolf epigraph at the start of Family Soundscapes: "Box IV"?

4. What is the woman's philosophy about answering the questions of the boy and girl?

5. What does the reader learn by the end of Part I about the woman's own childhood?

6. Which section of the fifth elegy causes the woman to stop reading to the boy?

7. What example does the boy give when he claims that the girl is "sometimes really smart" (196)?

8. Who is the rancher encountered by the boy and girl on their journey and why is the boy happy when he discovers the rancher's name?

9. What commonalities does the boy find between the careers of the man and the woman?

10. How does the boy answer the woman's queries about the procedures he would follow if he and the girl ever became lost? What is the woman's reaction to the boy's answer?

(see the answer keys)

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