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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. 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) Juliet Cafe.
(b) Billie's Cafe.
(c) Dixie's Cafe.
(d) Aroma Cafe.

2. While making a statement about marginalization, the man compares the United States to "an enormous" (212) what?
(a) Party.
(b) Game of dodgeball.
(c) Cemetery.
(d) Prison.

3. In what way does the boy document his and the girl's encounter with the rancher on the tractor?
(a) He takes a photograph of the rancher and the girl.
(b) He writes a journal entry about the rancher.
(c) He takes a photograph of the rancher.
(d) He records the sound of the rancher's voice.

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

5. On the family's way to the airport near Roswell, the boy requests a song about David Bowie that focuses on what kind of a person?
(a) A rebel.
(b) A hero.
(c) An astronaut.
(d) A young American.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman claims that fear "in the daytime, under the sun" (157) belongs to whom?

2. What is NOT something to which the woman has been accustomed within the confines of the car during the road trip?

3. 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?

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

5. On what type of document does the boy draw the route he and the girl plan to take as they set out in search of lost people?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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)?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. What event causes the woman to question the boy about what he would do if he and the girl ever got lost while on their own?

10. What simile does the boy use to describe his relationship with the woman's mother?

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