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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. 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?
(a) The road map and the recorder.
(b) The road map and a Polaroid photograph.
(c) The recorder and the drum.
(d) The clipboard and the road map.

2. The coyote in Elegies for Lost Children begins with how many children under his supervision on their way to the United States?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

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

4. The woman remarks that while the man is driving, if she asks him what he is thinking about, he "usually" (156) replies with what word?
(a) Everything.
(b) Sound.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The kids.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. How many boys are under the supervision of the coyote at the start of the journey in Elegies for Lost Children?

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

5. The boy recalls the man having once told a story about a little girl in Siberia whose life had been saved against all odds by what kind of animal?

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 major change in narration takes place at the start of the part called Reenactment?

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

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. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

9. What bright spot does the boy say will remain in the situation even if the man and woman never find the two of them?

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

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