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

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

3. What term does the boy use to describe the things he had "invented and perfected way before" (204) the family's road trip?
(a) Hand-traps.
(b) Nap-clouds.
(c) Arrow-maps.
(d) Finger-maps.

4. After the woman's mother had gone to join a guerilla movement, how much time passed before the woman saw her mother again?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 5 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the boy continue to call the girl throughout the narrative once the name is chosen?

2. What object does the woman attack in anger when she sees the immigration officers take a certain action when the plane starts to move?

3. 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?

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

5. How many children does the cashier say will be deported from an airport near Roswell the following day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question does the boy nervously ask the woman during a discussion about the novel Lord of the Flies?

2. What event causes the boy to become unhappy for the first time since he and the girl had set out on their journey together?

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

4. 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?

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

6. What sight in the backseat causes the woman to relent and to grant the boy's request to play "Space Oddity" again after the "fifth or sixth time" (156)?

7. What items does the boy pack in preparation for the trek into the desert and eventually to Echo Canyon?

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

9. In what way does the motif of music enter the part of the narrative when the boy and girl enter a diner to get some water?

10. In what habit does the girl often engage and what does she call her habit?

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